Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYTo get rid of an enemy one must love him.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love those you hate you.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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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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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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