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First Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is…
- 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…
- Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.
- If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use…
- So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather…
- The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of…
- In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.
- The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.
- 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…
- One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
- In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
- Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
- Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence…
- Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
- When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as…
- To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell…
More First Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong