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What Men Live by and Other Tales QUOTES

1 " Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life! "

― Leo Tolstoy , What Men Live by and Other Tales

2 " I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for others that they really live. He who has Love has God in him, and is in God - - because God is Love. "

― Leo Tolstoy , What Men Live by and Other Tales

3 " I have learned that men live not by selfishness, but by love. "

― Leo Tolstoy , What Men Live by and Other Tales

4 " All men love live not by what they may intend for their own well-being, but by the love that dwells in others. "

― Leo Tolstoy , What Men Live by and Other Tales

5 " He continued to read every night, and the more he read the more clearly he understood what God required of him, and how he might live for God. And his heart grew lighter and lighter. "

― Leo Tolstoy , What Men Live by and Other Tales

6 " There is only one time that is important--Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. "

― Leo Tolstoy , What Men Live by and Other Tales

7 " Therefore, let him who sees the sun’s whole light filling the world, refrain from blaming or despising the superstitious man, who in his own idol sees one ray of that same light. Let him not despise even the unbeliever who is blind and cannot see the sun at all. "

― Leo Tolstoy , What Men Live by and Other Tales

8 " So on matters of faith,” continued the Chinaman, the student of Confucius, “it is pride that causes error and discord among men. As with the sun, so it is with God. Each man wants to have a special God of his own, or at least a special God for his native land. Each nation wishes to confine in its own temples Him, whom the world cannot contain. "

― Leo Tolstoy , What Men Live by and Other Tales