To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything intelligent is so boring.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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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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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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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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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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