Wisdom Quotes
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.

- Leo Tolstoy

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Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

- Leo Tolstoy

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

- Leo Tolstoy

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Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

- Leo Tolstoy

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I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

- Leo Tolstoy

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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

- Leo Tolstoy

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

- Leo Tolstoy

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the State, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars.

- Leo Tolstoy

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - opening line from Anna Karenina

- Leo Tolstoy

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Anna Karenina

- Leo Tolstoy

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

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