Leo Tolstoy quotes - page 2

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. (Leo Tolstoy)
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. View quote
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. View quote
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. View quote
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. View quote
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The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience. View quote
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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. View quote
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. View quote
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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was. View quote
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. View quote
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. (Leo Tolstoy)
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. View quote
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History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true. View quote
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. View quote
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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person. View quote
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We lost because we told ourselves we lost. View quote
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And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. View quote
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Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. View quote
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All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom. View quote
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Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. View quote
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Boredom: the desire for desires. (Leo Tolstoy)
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. View quote
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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. View quote
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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings. View quote
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Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! View quote
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