Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Lying Quotes, Writing Quotes

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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Commit no act that is contrary to love.

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

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If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

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Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

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Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

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Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

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We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

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Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

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Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

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There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

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