Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Son Quotes, Men Quotes

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

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How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

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The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

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Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

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It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.

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Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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