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.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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