When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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