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Doe Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo…
- 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in…
- It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which…
- The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the…
- It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any…
- We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning…
- If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
- What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to…
- Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.
- Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom…
- When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
- Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the…
- Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
- Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
- Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because…
- The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.
- Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or…
- Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering,…
- Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
- Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God.…
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness.…
- Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
- The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi