I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
LEO TOLSTOY
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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