Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYAll the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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