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.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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 get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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God is the same everywhere.
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