Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Government Quotes, Law Quotes

In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

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Each time of life has its own kind of love.

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

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The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

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How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

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All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

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There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

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Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

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If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

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God gave the day, God gave the strength.

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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Commit no act that is contrary to love.

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