It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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