When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYTruth, 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, try only to please God, not people.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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