Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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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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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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