If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
LEO TOLSTOYRespect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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