You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOYA 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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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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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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