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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
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.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
