Leo Tolstoy Quotes, School Quotes, People Quotes

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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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

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If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

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Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

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What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

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When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

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Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

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Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

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Enough or not...it will have to do

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Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

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There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

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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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If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

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