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May Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
- Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,…
- Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods…
- The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite…
- It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts…
- 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…
- 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…
- One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it, because the words…
- The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination,…
- Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is…
- To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or…
- What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from…
- 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…
- Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}
- I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same…
- A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And…
- These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never…
- The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions…
- The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
- It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong