Author: Leo Tolstoy

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

- Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.

If you want to be happy, be.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

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

- Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

- Leo Tolstoy

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

- Leo Tolstoy

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

- Leo Tolstoy

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

- Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

- Leo Tolstoy

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