It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYRespect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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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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