If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
LEO TOLSTOYTo get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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 Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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