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.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Love those you hate you.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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