He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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