Leo Tolstoy Quotes, People Quotes, Feelings Quotes

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

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...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

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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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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

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If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

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I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.

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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

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One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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Teach French and unteach sincerity.

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After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

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I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

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To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

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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." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

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It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

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Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

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Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

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