Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Rewards Quotes, Causes Quotes

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

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With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

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Love those you hate you.

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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

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When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

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He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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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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It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

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Children: a torment and nothing more.

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Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.

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Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

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

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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

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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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Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

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