Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Humility Quotes

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

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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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The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

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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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Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

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Kings are the slaves of history.

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He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts" "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

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Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

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Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

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A holy spirit lives within you.

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