To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in 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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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