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.
LEO TOLSTOYThe key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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