Leo Tolstoy
PART ONE Chapter 34 When Vronsky went to Moscow from Petersburg, he had left his large set of rooms in Morskaia to his friend and favorite comrade Petritsky. Petritsky was a young lieutenant, not...
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
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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.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
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