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"Conceit is incompatible with understanding" — Leo Tolstoy
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"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." — Leo Tolstoy
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"If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food." — Leo Tolstoy
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"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." — Leo Tolstoy
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"The first glass you drive in like a stake, the second flies like a crake, and after the third they fly like wee little birds." — Leo Tolstoy
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"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised." — Leo Tolstoy
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"I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor." — Leo Tolstoy
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"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth." — Leo Tolstoy
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"All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy." — Leo Tolstoy
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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." — Leo Tolstoy
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"The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?" — Leo Tolstoy
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"Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries" — Leo Tolstoy
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"The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe" — Leo Tolstoy
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"I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew." — 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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"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." — Leo Tolstoy
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"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful" — Leo Tolstoy
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"We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated" — Leo Tolstoy
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"In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty" — Leo Tolstoy
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"A peasant dies calmly because he is not a Christian. He performs the rituals as a matter of course, but his true religion is different. His religion is nature, with which he has lived."" — Leo Tolstoy
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"The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a" — Leo Tolstoy
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