To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
LEO TOLSTOYDebates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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God is the same everywhere.
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