Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYTruth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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 is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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