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.
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Leo Tolstoy
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About Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Leo TolstoyOne of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
If you want to be happy, be.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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.