You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOYA battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine 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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