Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Solitude Quotes

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

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Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

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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 only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

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There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

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When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.

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Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

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Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

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Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

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Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

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... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

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The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.

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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

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In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

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The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

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