I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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