All Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
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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.
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Patriotism
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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy
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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
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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
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
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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.
Leo Tolstoy
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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