Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality, and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself, while still remaining the same man. Leo Tolstoy
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be. - Carroll Bryant

  2. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? - Confucius

  3. You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. - Sarah Addison Allen

  4. That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history. - Anonymous

  5. That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. - Euripides

More Quotes By Leo Tolstoy
  1. I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

  2. Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

  3. Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

  4. I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

  5. They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

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