You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOYGod is the same everywhere.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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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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