You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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