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Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Quotes (458)

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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
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The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
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One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father” or, “God is One, and also Three” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.
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Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
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With friends, one is well but at home, one is better.
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Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
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And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.
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We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.
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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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I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
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The only purpose of education is freedom the only method is experience.
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She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.
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The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
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If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.
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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
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But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?
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I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
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I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.
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You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.
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