An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This... -Leo Tolstoy

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

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Leo Tolstoy Quotes to Explore

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded....
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it....
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom wa...
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves....
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time....
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one'...
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but th...
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God....
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love....
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us....

Life Quotes to Explore

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random....
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning....
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We...
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else....
Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present m...
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose....
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution....
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul....
No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life....
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself....