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.
LEO TOLSTOYOnly 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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