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Leo Tolstoy

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Always Ignorance Noble Talk Thinking Understand
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Battle Die God Sleep Spare Willing
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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Anniversary Couple I Love You Love Person Valentine
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Bad Honesty Liar
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Admit Destroy Human Life Possible Reason Rule
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Family Happiness Unhappy
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Cry Deep Eat Hustle Motivational Wolf Worse
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Happiness One Liner Story Unhappy
Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Couple Love One Liner Positive
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Enemy Love One Liner
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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Happiness Interest Love Moments Reality World
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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Desire Fear She Woman
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Company Intelligence Man Women Young
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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Love Reason Understand
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Ability Happiness Love One Liner

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