Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Peace Quotes, Simple Quotes

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

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I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

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Everything depends on upbringing.

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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

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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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The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

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At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

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The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

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And where love ends, hate begins

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The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

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There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

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There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

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Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

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There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

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