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I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.
Category: Attitude Author: Leo Tolstoy
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Category: Beauty Author: Leo Tolstoy
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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.
Category: God Author: Leo Tolstoy
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If you want to be happy, be.
Category: Happiness Author: Leo Tolstoy
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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 it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
Category: Health Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Category: Helping and Making a Difference Author: Leo Tolstoy
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
Category: Helping and Making a Difference Author: Leo Tolstoy
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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Leo Tolstoy Source: The Kingdom of God Is Within You
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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Category: Justice Author: Leo Tolstoy Source: What I Believe
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Category: Love Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Category: Music Author: Leo Tolstoy
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Category: Vegetarianism Author: Leo Tolstoy
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"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 the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
Category: Vegetarianism Author: Leo Tolstoy
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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
Category: Writing Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
Category: Writing Author: Leo Tolstoy
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