Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.
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The man who has nothing to lose is a very rich man. – Chinese saying
[2]
If you love someone you like and who loves you, such love is human. But it is only love for an enemy that can be divine. If your love is human, such love can become hate; but divine love can never change. – Tolstoy
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The person who knows a little talks a lot. The person who knows a lot keeps quiet. The reason for this is that the person who knows a little considers everything he knows to be important and wants to tell everyone about it. But the one who knows a lot also knows that it is possible to know a great deal more than he does, and for this reason he will only talk when other people would like him to, but he will keep quiet if he has not been asked to speak. – After Rosseau, Emile
[4]
We often judge other people: some we call good, others bad, some clever, others stupid. But this is wrong. A person flows along like a river. Every day he’s both unchanged and different at the same time: one moment he’s stupid, the next he’s clever; one moment good the next bad, and vice versa. It’s wrong therefore to judge others. As soon as you start judging someone, he becomes a different person. – Tolstoy
[5]
So long as you remember your own failings and try to correct them, it will never occur to you to criticize other people – and besides, you won’t have the time to do this. – The Talmud
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In so far as I am concerned, I know that I have no desire to do any wrong and that, if I do, it is because I am unable to stop myself. In so far as other people are concerned, if they do any wrong, that is because they cannot stop themselves wither. So why then do I think badly of them and start criticizing them? – Tolstoy
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We need to behave as if everyone can see into our ‘souls’ and know what is taking place. – Seneca, MLL
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It is not good to conceal bad deeds; but it is even worse to flaunt them and to take pride in them. – Tolstoy
[9]
Do not wish for death just because your life is hard. All the burdens on your shoulders will help you fulfill your destiny. The only way to get rid of your burdens is to live your life in such a way that you will fulfill your destiny. – Emerson, SR
[10]
Life is neither an imposition nor a pleasure, but a task which we are obliged to fulfil and to carry out to the very end with honour. – Tocqueville, Letter to Charles Stoffels, 22nd October 1831