Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Pride Quotes, Men Quotes

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

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He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

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Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

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Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

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Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

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I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

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Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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Teach French and unteach sincerity.

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Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

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Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

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At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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