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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Russian Novelist
Born: Sep 9, 1828
Died: Nov 20, 1910
Life Live Man Men People War
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
Time Patience Powerful Most Most Powerful Warriors Two
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy
Life Humanity Meaning Of Life Sole Meaning Meaning Of Serve
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy
Amazing Goodness Beauty Complete Delusion How
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. Leo Tolstoy
Life Arrogance Better Arrogant Considers Perfect Better Person Main Himself Becoming Chief Person Task Interferes Harm
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy
Truth Simplicity Goodness Greatness Where
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
Myself Me Man Wish Sorry Sit Others Assure Back Ease Possible Carry Except Him Making Am His Lot Off Very Getting Means Choking
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy
Art Feeling Handicraft Artist Experienced Transmission
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy
Family Happy Unhappy Own Way Another Families Resemble Each
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. Leo Tolstoy
Life Impossible Knowing Without Am Why Here
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy
Work God You Name Look Around Cease Stop Your Moment
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
Happiness Nature Broken Man First Shall Between Conditions Link
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy
Happiness Life Service People Joy Definite Be Real Object Only Outside Look Real Personal Themselves
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. Leo Tolstoy
Life Food Man Animal Animals Healthy Live Eats Animal Life He Taking Merely Without Sake His Meat Therefore Appetite
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy
Truth Like Obtained Gold Washing Away Growth
Boredom: the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy
Boredom Desire Desires
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. Leo Tolstoy
Government Rest Men Us Who Violence Association
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy
Stupid Abnormal Nietzsche
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism Suffering Power State Sum More Cruel Wrong Greater Which Founded
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy
Life Changes True True Life Occur Tiny Lived
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. Leo Tolstoy
Life Change Try Live Changes Otherwise Our Must Mental Demands New Come Impossibility According Than Form Conscience Resolution
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. Leo Tolstoy
Life Faith Man Sense Live Virtue Destroy Force Himself Does Whereby Which
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Leo Tolstoy
War Ugly Try Unjust Must Voice Within Stifle Wage Themselves Who Conscience
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. Leo Tolstoy
War Alone History People Independent Hatched Always Pernicious Governments Which Successful Interests Even Whom
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. Leo Tolstoy
War Man Responsibility Christian Assume Other Terrible Terrible Thing Hand Right Thing Starting
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. Leo Tolstoy
God Words Men Approbation Only Between Always Chief Intended Done Difference Deeds
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. Leo Tolstoy
Man Humanity Aims Attainment Unconscious Instrument Himself Historic Man Lives Lives Universal
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