Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

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The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

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All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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Only those live who do good.

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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

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

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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

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As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

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Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

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I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

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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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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

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Each time of life has its own kind of love.

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