Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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