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Better Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- 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.
- If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so:…
- Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
- If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with…
- At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the…
- In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.
- Anything is better than lies and deceit!
- All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing…
- By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich
- it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
- Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.
- He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been…
- With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.
- Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
- If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity…
- I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius