You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOYMan 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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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 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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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