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Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Quotes (457)

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.
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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing] the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.
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Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.
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We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
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Without Greek studies there is no education.
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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
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Wealth brings a heavy purse poverty, a light spirit.
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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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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
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Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
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I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.
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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.
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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time
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In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.
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The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.
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Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.
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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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I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
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