I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
LEO TOLSTOYHe was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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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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Faith is the force of life.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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