Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
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.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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.
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.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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