Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Would Be Quotes, Rewards Quotes

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 ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

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But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. 'Where am I? What am I doing? What for?' She tried to get up, to throw herself back; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and dragged her down on her back.

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God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

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A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

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It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

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In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

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I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

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A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

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Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

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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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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

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Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

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