Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Littles Quotes, Ethical Quotes

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

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Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

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Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

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Our body is a machine for living.

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Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

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Without Greek studies there is no education.

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

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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

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Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

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

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There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

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When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

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I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

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

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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

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In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

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