Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
LEO TOLSTOYEvery 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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