Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYI often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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God is the same everywhere.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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