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Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

Men never understand what honor is, though they’re always talking about it
– Leo Tolstoy

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  1. Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy – Leo Tolstoy
  2. I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. – Leo Tolstoy
  3. Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. – Leo Tolstoy
  4. I felt a wish never to leave that room – a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. – Leo Tolstoy
  5. Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. – Leo Tolstoy
  6. In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. – Leo Tolstoy
  7. Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. – Leo Tolstoy
  8. Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present. – Leo Tolstoy
  9. If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy
  10. It is pride that makes error and discord among men. – Leo Tolstoy
  11. Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent. – Leo Tolstoy
  12. Woman, don’t you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it’s always perfectly new. – Leo Tolstoy
  13. I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse. – Leo Tolstoy
  14. Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about. – Toba Beta
  15. And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. – Leo Tolstoy
  16. Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people–that’s in your hands. – Leo Tolstoy
  17. If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. – Leo Tolstoy
  18. War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war. – Dean Hughes
  19. There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead. – Leo Tolstoy
  20. He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him seemed impossible. – Leo Tolstoy
  21. What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! – Leo Tolstoy
  22. True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy
  23. All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. – Leo Tolstoy
  24. I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. – Leo Tolstoy
  25. The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind. – Leo Tolstoy
  26. In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down. – Leo Tolstoy
  27. But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. – Leo Tolstoy
  28. One must be cunning and wicked in this world. – Leo Tolstoy
  29. Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? – Leo Tolstoy
  30. Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. – Leo Tolstoy
  31. The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him – six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs. – Leo Tolstoy
  32. Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it. – Leo Tolstoy
  33. Nice passion is reading – Leo Tolstoy
  34. Everything depends on upbringing. – Leo Tolstoy
  35. She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was. – Leo Tolstoy
  36. Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There’s no girl who hasn’t gone through that. And it’s all so unimportant! – Leo Tolstoy
  37. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility. – Leo Tolstoy
  38. It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself. – Leo Tolstoy
  39. Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be. – Leo Tolstoy
  40. Happiness is pleasure without regret – Leo Tolstoy

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