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Good Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of…
- 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.
- The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry…
- There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two…
- It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good…
- 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…
- Only those live who do good.
- The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as…
- By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief…
- There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.
- 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…
- If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
- Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?
- I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.
- The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
- All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
- Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
- Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
- I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God,…
- Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If…
- To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of…
- A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who…
- I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
- Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women…
- The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle