Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYKings are the slaves of history.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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It’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.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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