To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYLove is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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