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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
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.
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.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.
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.