Tag: Leo Tolstoy
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy
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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.
Leo Tolstoy
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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy
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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.
Leo Tolstoy
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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy
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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.
Leo Tolstoy
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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.
Leo Tolstoy
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy