Kings are the slaves of history.
LEO TOLSTOYLet the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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Faith is the force of life.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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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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