It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYYou can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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