Leo Tolstoy Peace Quotes

#1. Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven

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#2. Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

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#3. WAR AND PEACE EPILOGUE

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#4. Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

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#5. All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

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#6. Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

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#7. He talked of this, and passionately longed to hear more of Kitty, and, at the same time, was afraid of hearing it. He dreaded the breaking up of the inward peace he had gained with such effort. "Yes,

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#8. Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

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#9. And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen

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#10. If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

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#11. And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.

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#12. Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

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#13. Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

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#14. They talked about peace, but did not believe in its possibility.

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#15. He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.
He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like the earth. It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars.

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#16. There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness

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#17. APPENDIX SOME WORDS ABOUT WAR AND PEACE (Published in Russian Archive, 1868)

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#18. And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

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#19. A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

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#20. My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.

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#21. The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered ...

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#22. Yes! All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace. Thank God!...

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#23. All this was clear to me, and I was glad and at peace. Then it is as if someone is saying to me, "See that you remember." And I awoke.

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#24. The Revolution was a grand thing!" continued Monsieur Pierre, betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind.

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#25. One need only admit the premise that public peace of mind is in danger and any action finds justification. All the horrors of the Reign of Terror in France were based entirely on solicitude for public tranquillity.

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#26. How can one feel well when one is suffering in moral sense? Can any sensitive person find peace of mind nowadays?

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#27. Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

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#28. What is War and Peace? It is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed. Such

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#29. Nothing does harm if one's mind is at peace.

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#30. Christ's teaching, which came to be known to men, not by means of violence and the sword," they say, "but by means of non-resistance to evil, gentleness, meekness, and peaceableness, can only be diffused through the world by the example of peace, harmony, and love among its followers.

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