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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
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's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
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.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
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 that most people can't eat it.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Written by Leo Tolstoy

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