Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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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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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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