You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOYLife did not stop, and one had to live.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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