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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Leo Tolstoy

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Leo Tolstoy

Opinion

Style

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

Love

Men

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.

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

Want

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.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy

Man

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Leo Tolstoy

Life

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy