Leo Tolstoy

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A moral philosopher through fiction. He carried the same weight Tolstoy did — without the faith.

Repaying offense with offense is just putting more wood on the fire, but he who meets his offender with peace has already defeated him with peace itself.

There is no material reward that can compensate for the damage an act of evil does to your soul.

If you want to know the full joy of a good deed, do it secretly and then forget about it. Only then will your good deed be within you and not outside you.

It’s much harder to tell the truth than to lie, but it’s hardest of all to stop with one lie and lie no more.

Don’t honor the wealthy, don’t envy them; keep your distance from them and pity them.

In every religion there is both truth and falsehood. Try to find the truth in the religion you were born into. The truth in every religion is comprehensible, simple and clear. And this comprehensible, simple and clear truth is in all religions.

Chekhov doesn’t resolve anything. He just shows you the moment before the soul makes a choice.

Master of small tragedies. He wrote the quiet pain everyone hides.

A truthful word is more powerful than popes, bishops, kings, and all the rich men on earth.

The main difference between people consists in the degree to which they live by their own thoughts and those of others.

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Most evil isn’t committed because people are evil, but because they believe in other people’s false ideas and accept them as faith.

If you can do a good deed or show love toward someone you must do it immediately, because the opportunity will pass and never return.

Don’t think that your good attitude toward others is your gift to them. It’s a gift you give to yourself.

There is no more visible sign of a person’s success on the path of goodness than when he restrains his anger and refuses to repay an unkind word with an unkind word, or refuses to strike back at a person who’s offended him.

Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you.

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