Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
LEO TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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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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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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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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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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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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