Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.Leo Tolstoy
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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.
Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.
Leo Tolstoy
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.
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