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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes

«All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.»
«The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.»
«What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts»
«I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.»
«True life is lived when tiny changes occur.»
«The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.»
«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»
«The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals»
«You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.»
«Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them»

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