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"39 Leo Tolstoy Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 9 September 1828. Died: 20 November 1910 | Writer |

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.

Better Person Harm Arrogant
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Around Cease God Look
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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Death Even Make Shadow
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Amazing Beauty Complete Delusion
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If you want to be happy, be.

Be Happy Happy Want You
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Changing Changing The World Everyone Himself
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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.

Actions Certain Condemns Definite
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Emotion Music Is Shorthand
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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.

Animal Animal Life Animals Appetite
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art Artist Experienced Feeling
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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Chooses Happens He Just
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Most Most Powerful Patience Powerful
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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.

Assume Christian Hand Man
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Away Gold Growth Like
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Association Government Men Rest
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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.

Destroy Does Faith Force
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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Humanity Life Meaning Meaning Of
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Conscience Must Stifle Themselves
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Answering Asked Deaf Deaf People
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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.

Body Defend Go Itself
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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Another Each Families Family
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Certainly Hearts Kinds Love
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Between Broken Conditions First
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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.

All People Any Care Live
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Because Everything I Love Love
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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Goodness Greatness Simplicity Truth
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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.

Art Eat Food Good
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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Because Lost Ourselves Told
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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Boredom Desire For Happiness
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

According Changes Come Conscience
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Changes Life Lived Occur
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Aims Attainment Himself Historic
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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Am Here I Am Impossible
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Consists Death Forcing Others
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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 war is always pernicious even when successful.

Alone Always Even Governments
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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.

Cruel Founded Greater More
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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.

Cease Decrease Desire Growth
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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.

Always Between Chief Deeds
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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.

Be Real Definite Happiness Joy
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes & Sayings