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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Thoughts

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A Writeris dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Writers

3.0 · 52 votes

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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Family

4.1 · 62 votes · 197 reads

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Love

3.0 · 61 votes · 183 reads

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Boredom

4.5 · 50 votes

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Leo Tolstoy

Nature
But the peasants - how do the peasants die?
3.3 · 60 votes · 98 reads
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Society
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.
3.9 · 36 votes · 37 reads
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Defects
Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
4.8 · 36 votes · 138 reads
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Society
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
4.8 · 32 votes · 158 reads
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Thought and Reason
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
3.2 · 53 votes · 169 reads
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Various
He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
3.8 · 49 votes · 8 reads
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Defects
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, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
3.2 · 48 votes · 32 reads
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Virtues
I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor. - Tolstoy, Count Leo
3.1 · 29 votes · 12 reads
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Virtues
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense invo
3.1 · 8 votes · 4 reads
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Government and Politics
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor a
3.0 · 62 votes · 183 reads
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Virtues
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
4.9 · 46 votes · 86 reads
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Various
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
3.9 · 19 votes · 142 reads
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Feelings
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the gener
3.7 · 40 votes · 97 reads
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Nature
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
3.9 · 31 votes · 167 reads
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Art and Culture
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
3.3 · 45 votes · 120 reads
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Nature
Only those live who do good.
3.0 · 9 votes · 127 reads
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Art and Culture
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precep
5.0 · 6 votes · 193 reads
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Society
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
3.6 · 37 votes · 21 reads
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Nature
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
4.8 · 27 votes · 142 reads
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Virtues
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
4.3 · 36 votes · 39 reads
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Virtues
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
4.7 · 34 votes · 8 reads
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Time
There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
5.0 · 22 votes · 51 reads
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Society
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
3.7 · 9 votes · 98 reads
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Virtues
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
4.7 · 44 votes · 165 reads
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Various
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
3.4 · 30 votes · 195 reads
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