To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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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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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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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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