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Letter "L" » Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
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«Only those live who do good.»
«The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
increase
«Ivan Ilyich's life was most simple, and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible.»
«All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.»
«Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe - he has no other - and that instrument is reason»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
direct, instrument, received, relation, relation to, wherewith
«Without knowing why I am and why I am here, life is impossible.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
I am here
«Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite obje»
«There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
discern, enabled, on the contrary, rival, rivaled
«Pleasure in wealth is a fickle joy»
«The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Happiness,
Labor,
Life
| Keywords:
in labor
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