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• As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

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  Long, House, Slaughter

  Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

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• People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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  Rivers, Water, People

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• I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

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  Evil, Want, Causes

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• Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

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  Stars, Sky, Depth

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1020, Vintage

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• One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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  Writing, Pieces, Flesh

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• The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

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  Lying, Heart, Essence

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• The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

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  Art, Lying, Might

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art?”, p.159, Leo Tolstoy

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• Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

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  Use, Praying, Judgment

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• They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

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  Smallpox, Ought

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.119, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

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  Men, Law, Culture

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• If you want to be happy, just be.

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  Want, Want To Be Happy, Ifs

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• God gave the day, God gave the strength.

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  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.763, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

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  Nature, People, Quality

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• If you want to be happy, be happy.

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  Want, Want To Be Happy, Ifs

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 352, 2006.

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• What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?

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  Stars, Doubt, Earth

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• Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

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  School, Three, Needed

  "Anna Karenina".

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• Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

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  Past, Soul, Done

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.3, 1909.

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• If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

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  Generations, Mormonism, World

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• Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

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  Past, Rivers, Water

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• So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

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  Religious, Brother, Men

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• 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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  Art, Food, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art?”, p.156, Leo Tolstoy

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• When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

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  Greatness, Men, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1125, First Avenue Editions

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• It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

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  Book, Heart, Animal

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• If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.

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  Dream, Country, Teaching

  "Patriotism or Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

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• What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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  People, Historical, Causes

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