Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
LEO TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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