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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.
