There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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