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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Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

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

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He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

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Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

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Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

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In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.

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I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

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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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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

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Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

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

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The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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The Kingdom of God is Within You.

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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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