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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life - becoming a better person.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
