The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

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The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in...

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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are,...

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Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

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You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought...

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Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

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In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the...

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly...

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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but...

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A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

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Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the...

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There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is...

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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

If you want to be happy, be.

If you want to be happy, be.

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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which...

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the...

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the...

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he...

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he...