Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Mad Quotes

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

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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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I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

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When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

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Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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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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The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

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Commit no act that is contrary to love.

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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

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There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

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I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.

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Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

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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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A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

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In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

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