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Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), was a Russian writer, novelist, fictionist, and philosopher.
利奧·托爾斯泰 (1828年—1910年)俄國作家、小說家、散文作家、和哲學家。 

1254. It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
中文 / Chinese:  做好事的方式以沒有任何人知道為最好。
1255. They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
中文 / Chinese:  他們不知道什麼是快樂,他們不知道沒有愛就沒有快樂或不快樂 — 沒有生命。
1256. You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
中文 / Chinese:  你可以用情人的愛愛一個心愛的人,但愛一個敵人只可用神聖的愛。
1257. I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
中文 / Chinese:  我時常想男人不明白什麼是高貴和什麼是無知,然而他們總是討論著它。
1258. The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...
中文 / Chinese:  對我來說,整個世界分成兩部分:一是她,那是所有快樂,希望,光明;另外一部分不是她,那是沮喪和黑暗...
1259. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
中文 / Chinese:  構成一個快樂的婚姻不是你有多能協調,而是你怎樣處理不協調性。
1260. If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
中文 / Chinese:  如果我們容許理性管治人,那樣生命所有的可能性都被摧毀。
1208. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
中文 / Chinese:  一個人可以生活和健康而不用殺動物來做食物;因此,如果他食肉,他參與奪取動物的生命只不過為了滿足他的胃口。而這行為是不道德的。
1209. If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
中文 / Chinese:  假如每一個人為自己的信念而爭取,那就沒有戰爭了。
1210. Boredom: the desire for desires.
中文 / Chinese:  枯燥:渴望慾望。
1211. Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
中文 / Chinese:  有時她不知道她害怕什麼,她渴望什麼:不管是她害怕還是渴望已發生或將發生,及明確地她曾經渴望過,她不知道。
1212. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
中文 / Chinese:  快樂不依賴外間事物,但視乎我們怎樣看它。
1213. There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
中文 / Chinese:  沒有簡單,善良和真理,就沒有偉大。
1214. All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
中文 / Chinese:  所有優秀的文學作品都是兩個故事其中一個:一個人踏上旅程或一個陌生人來到鎮上。
1104. In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
中文 / Chinese:  以上帝之名,停一刻,終止工作,看看周圍。
1105. Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
中文 / Chinese:  年青人最需要一個有智識的女人作伴。
1106. When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
中文 / Chinese:  當你愛某人,你愛這人本身,而不是你心目中所想的要。
1107. Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
中文 / Chinese:  翻查我們的靈魂,我們時常掘出些事情躺在那裡而沒有為意。
1108. Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
中文 / Chinese:  做壞人,但最少不要做個說謊的人,欺騙者。
1109. Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
中文 / Chinese:  愛情。我不喜歡那字是因為它對我太有意義,遠于你能夠明白。
1110. Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
中文 / Chinese:  錯不會停止錯因為大多數份額在裡面。
1111. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
中文 / Chinese:  所有變化,所有魅力,所有生命的美是由光與影組成。
1019. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
中文 / Chinese:  “美麗是善良”,令人驚訝的是錯覺可以那麼完全。
1020. I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
中文 / Chinese:  我想...如果有多少個頭就有多少份思想,那樣有多少個心就有多少份愛。
1021. Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
中文 / Chinese:  尊重是發明來填補本來給愛空著的位置。
1022. Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
中文 / Chinese:  只有那些能夠強烈地愛的人亦能夠遭受巨大的悲痛,然而這愛的需要可抵消他們的悲傷和治癒它。
1023. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
中文 / Chinese:  我們只能知道什麼也不知道。那是最高程度的人類智慧。

1024. If you want to be happy, be.
中文 / Chinese:  如果你想快樂,快樂吧。
1025. Spring is the time of plans and projects.
中文 / Chinese:  春天是策劃和企劃的時候。
1026. Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
中文 / Chinese:  告訴別人一個人的感覺真的可能嗎?
911. In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself.
中文 / Chinese:  在我們的世界裡每人都想改變人性,但沒有人想過改變自己。
912. Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
中文 / Chinese:  一個人只要有耐性每件事總會成功。
913. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
中文 / Chinese:  所有快樂的家庭都很相似,每一個不快樂的家庭卻有它的區別。
914. Great things are always simple and modest.
中文 / Chinese:  偉大的事情總是簡單和適中的。
915. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
中文 / Chinese:  最強的兩個戰士是耐心和時間。
916. We always think that they love us because we are good, but we never suspect that good are those who love us.
中文 / Chinese:  我們總是想他們愛我們是因為我們好,但我們從未懷疑過是他們好才愛我們。
917. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
中文 / Chinese:  愛是人生。一切,我明白的每件事,我明白只因為我愛。
918. One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
中文 / Chinese:  快樂的首個條件是人與大自然的連結不可以打斷。
919. The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
中文 / Chinese:  每一男人和女人的天職都是服務別人。