Everything I know, I know because of love.
LEO TOLSTOYKings are the slaves of history.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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Faith is the force of life.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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