Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
LEO TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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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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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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