One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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.
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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.
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Faith is the force of life.
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