It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around 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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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