Every heart has its own skeletons.
LEO TOLSTOYI’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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God is the same everywhere.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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