If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
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All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so but there was no real life in me.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible ... and to serve others as much as possible.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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