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Leo Tolstoy quotes about good

Russian Novelist September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910

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Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold. Leo Tolstoy
You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction. Leo Tolstoy
It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man, to forget what you've said, as I forget it," she said at last."Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, everforget... Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are..."
There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness..."
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness,..."
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it... Leo Tolstoy
It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known crimes, which not only remained unpunished but were adorned with all the splendor men can devise. Leo Tolstoy
The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if all that was good in me had hidden itself, and only what is horrid remains. Leo Tolstoy
Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows her and Aline Stah. Perhaps, he said, pressing her arm with his elbow. But it is better to do good so that, ask whom you will, no one knows anything about it. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows..."
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it. Leo Tolstoy
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. Leo Tolstoy

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