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Wish Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to…
- Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on…
- I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for…
- Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish…
- Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
- Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he…
- I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not…
- Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.
- He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been…
- I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never…
- I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.
- If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity…
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius