You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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