If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
LEO TOLSTOYHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Love those you hate you.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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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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