If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
LEO TOLSTOYWithout this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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