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Living Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be…
- '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…
- Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people,…
- 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…
- Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,…
- Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
- There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
- The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
- Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let…
- What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for…
- Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.
- But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power…
- If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live…
- One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.
- When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair;…
- When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on…
- Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
- Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
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