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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
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.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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.
