Pride Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

14 Pride quotes by Leo Tolstoy

If you’re curious how a literary giant wrestles with ego, this short set gives a taste of Tolstoy’s take on pride. Though brief, the selections capture his moral nuance, making it a handy primer for anyone exploring his perspective.

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He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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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…

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In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected…

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“Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did…

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If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take…

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In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to…

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Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction…

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Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as…

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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect.…

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“The next Post brought a reply from the starets, who wrote to him that the cause of all his trouble lay in…

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“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most…

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“Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His…

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“I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those…

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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…

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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

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I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…

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The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,…

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind…

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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