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• Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

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  Love, Enemy, Needs

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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• The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

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  Son, Men, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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

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  Inspirational, Karma, Men

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• Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

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  Our Actions, Mystery, Accord

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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.

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  Life, Change, Deep Thought

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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• There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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  Men, Thinking, Our World

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian”

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• Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

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  Men, Political, Doe

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). “Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata”

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• It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

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  World, Has Beens

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• I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

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  Want, Harm, Prove

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.528, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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  Sad, Joy, Sorrow

  'War and Peace' (1868-9) bk. 15, ch. 1

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• You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

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  War, Special, Storm

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.866, 谷月社

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• Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

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  Animal, Men, Steps

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• It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

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  People, Meaning Of Life, Majority

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, April 30.

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• The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

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  Anniversary, Goal, Joy

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• Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

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  World, Want, Changing The World

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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.

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  Inspirational, Karma, Peace

  "The Law of Love and the Law of Violence". Treatise by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.

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

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  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  'The Kreutzer Sonata' 5 (translated by Maude)

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• In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

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  Pride, Order, Opposites

  "The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy".

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• Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

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  Men, Tradition, Reason

  "Essays and Letters".

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• Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

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  Differences, Women Bashing, Men Bashing

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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• It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

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  People, Judging, Given

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.383, Vintage

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• As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

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  Peace, Passion, Vegetarian Diet

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• I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

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  Self Control, Mentor

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.934, Everyman's Library

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• I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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  Writing, Rewriting, I Can

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• If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

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  Life, Reason, Possibility

  "War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman".

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