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Leo Tolstoy [1828-1910] Russian

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Novelist, Writer

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

War, Happiness, Art, Change, Food, Time, Truth, Alone, Amazing, Beauty, Death, Faith, Family, Government, Great, History, Life, Love, Men, Music, Nature, Patience, Patriotism, Power, Relationship

Quote	Tags	Rank
If you want to be happy, be.	Happiness	101
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.	Patience, Time, War	102
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.	Change	103
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.	Truth	104
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.		105
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.	Love	106
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.		107
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.	Amazing, Beauty	108
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.	Men, Time	109
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.		110
Music is the shorthand of emotion.	Music	111
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.	Art	112
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.	War	113
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.	Family	114
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.	Great, Truth	115
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.	Change	116
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.		117
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.	Death	118
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.	Patriotism, Power	119
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.	Happiness	120
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.		121
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.	Faith	122
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.		123
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.		124
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.	Happiness, Nature	125
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.	Art, Food	126
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.		201
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.		202
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.	Alone, History, War	203
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.		204
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.	Food	205
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.	Government	206
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.		207
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.		208
Boredom: the desire for desires.		209
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.	Life	210
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.	Relationship	211
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.		212
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.	War	213
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.		214
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.		215

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