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Quotes from The First Step — Leo Tolstoy

1828–1910 Russia

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To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.

The First Step (1892)

There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη — i.e., self-control or moderation.

The First Step (1892)

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