Leo Tolstoy Quotes, School Quotes, Three Quotes

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

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Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

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...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

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Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

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Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

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How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

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

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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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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

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Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

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Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

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There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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Faith is the force of life.

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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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You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

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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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