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Leo Tolstoy

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

alone

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

-Leo Tolstoy

amazing

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

art

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

-Leo Tolstoy

art

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

-Leo Tolstoy

beauty

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-Leo Tolstoy

change

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

-Leo Tolstoy

change

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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death

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

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death

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

faith

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

-Leo Tolstoy

family

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

food

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

food

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

-Leo Tolstoy

god

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

god

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

good

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

-Leo Tolstoy

government

If you want to be happy, be.

-Leo Tolstoy

happiness

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

-Leo Tolstoy

happiness

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

history

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

life

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

-Leo Tolstoy

life

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

life

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

-Leo Tolstoy

love

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

-Leo Tolstoy

love

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

-Leo Tolstoy

men

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

-Leo Tolstoy

men

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

men

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

men

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

men

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

-Leo Tolstoy

music

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

-Leo Tolstoy

nature

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

nature

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

-Leo Tolstoy

patience

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.

-Leo Tolstoy

patriotism

Leo Tolstoy

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.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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 is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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.

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.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

If you want to be happy, be.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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.

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.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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.

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.

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.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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.

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.

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