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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; theref...  
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhapp...  
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of s...  
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.  
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselve...  
And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several tim...  
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist ...  
Boredom: the desire for desires.  
But the peasants - how do the peasants die?  
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six...  
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing h...  
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not...  
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.  
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in s...  
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no ...  
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most pene...  
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet as...  
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds...  
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-...  
If you want to be happy, be.  
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.  
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.  
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only bec...  
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in...  
Music is the shorthand of emotion.   Music
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.  
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man ...  
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its ...  
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live other...  
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and...  
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.  
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.  
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth...  
There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most importa...  
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majorit...  
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.  
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing ...  
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the ...  
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especiall...  
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.  
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.  
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.