What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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God is the same everywhere.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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