Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Brother Quotes, Honesty Quotes

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.

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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

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Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

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... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

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Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.

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A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

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The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

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fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

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