What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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 everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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