You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of 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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Only 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.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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