Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

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The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

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I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

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Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

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There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

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Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

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Each time of life has its own kind of love.

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There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

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God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

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People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

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She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

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If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

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