To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
LEO TOLSTOYThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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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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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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 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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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Love those you hate you.
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