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War and Peace quotes

Leo Tolstoy

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“All we can know is that we know nothing.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“A battle is won by those who firmly resolve to win it!” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“You say: I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall. Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“God is the same every where.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“It is possible to love someone dear to you with human love, but an enemy can only be loved by divine love.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“I lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have become calmer since I began to live only for myself.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“The whole world is now for me divided into two halves: one half is she, and there all is joy, hope, light: the other half is everything where she is not, and there is all gloom and darkness...” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“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, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“It is now today, and it will be tomorrow, and always; and there was yesterday, and the day before...” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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