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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
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.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
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.
Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
