Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOY
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Everything I know, I know because of 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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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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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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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