Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Mean Quotes

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

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To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

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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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What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

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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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All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

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Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

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If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

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I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

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The Kingdom of God is Within You.

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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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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

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I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

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Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

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Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

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