What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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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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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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