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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.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
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.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
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.
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 activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
