Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Forget Quotes, States Quotes

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

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There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

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Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

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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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And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

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This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

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We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

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Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

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When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

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But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

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