Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYI’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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love those you hate you.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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 we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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