When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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