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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.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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.
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.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
