Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
LEO TOLSTOYI always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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