Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
LEO TOLSTOYNothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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