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Kings are the slaves of history.

Leo Tolstoy

Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Happiness Life Love Unhappy
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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Couple Romantic Sun
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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Break Consolation Diamond Harm Lie Poison Safe Truth
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Complain Fate Life
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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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Admit Destroy Human Life Possible Reason Rule
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Compatible Count Deal Happiness Marriage
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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Endurance Goals Himself Man Sleep Walk War
Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Alive Bury Dead Happiness Inspirational Live
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Emotion Music One Liner
Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Achievement Business Greatness Night Patience Success Time
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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Divine Enemy Human Love Person
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
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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Gold Growth Obtain Truth Wash
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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God Happiness People Please Want
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Afraid Fear Love Soul

Kings are the slaves of history.

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