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• As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.

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  Life, Heart, Men

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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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.

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  Peace, War, Independent

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays, letters, miscellanies”

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• But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

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  Law, Reason, Loving Others

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.717, Courier Corporation

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• One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

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  Wicked, World, This World

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.75, Vintage

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• Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

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  Mad, Wish

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “War and Peace: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.707, 谷月社

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• Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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  Honesty, Lying, Deceit

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.378, OUP Oxford

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• Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

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  Changing Your Life, Feels

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• There are as many loves as there are hearts.

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  Heart

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• vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

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  Vegetarianism, Humanitarianism

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• The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

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  Blood, Sauce, Looks

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

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• Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

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  Truth, Lying, Discovery

  "Anna Karenina".

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• Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

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  Forget, States, My Own

  "The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 121, September 26, 1985.

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• And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

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  Men, Yesterday, Majority

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1913). “Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)”

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• Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

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  Fiction, Conflict, Versus

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• The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

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  Art, Love Life, Problem

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• The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

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  Freedom, Essence, Slavery

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• Everything intelligent is so boring.

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  Intelligent, Intelligence, Boring

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• Happy people have no history.

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  People, History, Happy People

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.743, Yale University Press

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• Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

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  Funny, Humor, History

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• Everything I know, I know because of love.

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  Knows

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• The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

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  Light, Knowing Who You Are, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.475, Vintage

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• Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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  Art, Amusement, Matter

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.221, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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  Men, Able, Meaning Of Life

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

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  Teacher, Children, School

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1967). “Tolstoy on Education”

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• We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

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  People, Done

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.106, Vintage

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