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Quotes about morality
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! … God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Compassion is the chief and perhaps the only law of human existence.
If the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
An 'extraordinary' man has the right to decide in his own conscience to overstep certain obstacles.
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
Some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
Judge the Russian people not by the abominations they so often commit, but by the great and holy things for which, even in their abomination, they constantly yearn.
I didn't kill a human being, I killed a principle!
Go at once, this very minute, stand at the cross-roads, bow down, first kiss the earth which you have defiled, and then bow down to all the world and say to all men aloud, 'I am a murderer!'
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the great thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted.
To love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must.
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
We are each responsible to all for all.
It's not God that I don't accept, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.
The higher harmony is not worth the tears of one tortured child.
If he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.