To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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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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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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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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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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