It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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