All Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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.
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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.
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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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.
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