All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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