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Great Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- ...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
- In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event…
- In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from…
- Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
- Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable…
- India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world
- Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.
- ... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.
- There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
- Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and…
- All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
- Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the…
- She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a…
- They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was…
- I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is…
- I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — 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
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong