Sublime

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Your actions should be determined not by the desire of the people around you, but by the needs of all mankind.

In the world of morality, everything is more tightly bound together than in the world of the body. Every deception leads to a whole series of further deceptions, and every act of cruelty to a whole series of cruelties. Tolstoy

Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another person. Only when a person forgets himself for the sake of another, and lives for another creature, only this kind of love can be called true love, and only in this love do we see the blessing and reward of life. This is the foundation of the world.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life. LEO TOLSTOY, “FAMILY HAPPINESS

A man should use that spiritual heritage which he has received from the wise and holy people of the past, but he should test everything with his intellect, accepting certain things and rejecting others.

When Levin thought about what he was and what he lived for, he found no answer and fell into despair; but when he stopped asking himself about it, he seemed to know what he was and what he lived for, because he acted and lived firmly and definitely; recently he had even lived much more firmly and definitely than before.

And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.

Repay evil with good, and you will eliminate from a bad person any pleasure he might receive from doing evil. Tolstoy