Kings are the slaves of history.
LEO TOLSTOYWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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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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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Faith is the force of life.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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