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Leo Tolstoy

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Dedicated to the philosophy of Leo Tolstoy. Most tweets are my translations from his book For Every Day, which I'm translating into English for the 1st time.

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Learn to see good in all people except for yourself, and likewise learn to judge yourself and no one else.


The voice of your conscience is the voice of God.


"If you’re indifferent to the sufferings of others, you don’t deserve the title of human." Saadi, as quoted by Tolstoy


Particularly since I declare in advance that I will continue to do until my death what the government considers to be an evil.


I can’t understand God, but I know Him, I know the direction to him; and in fact, of all my knowledge, this is the most reliable.


Consciousness of your spiritual essence will save you from anything.


Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.


The pernicious character of their governments is so masked that they naively imagine that what is done in Russia is done only in Russia.


It is consciousness of one’s spiritual self, not one’s physical self, which gives true strength.


People very often do not accept the truth, because they do not like the form in which the truth is presented to them.


It would be good to write about the attitude of pure children toward vegetarianism: they instinctively know you shouldn't take life.


Know that when people particularly extol and glorify some sort of affair, that affair is bad.


"True science not only is not hostile to religion, but it even blazes a trail for it." John Ruskin, quoted by Tolstoy


Long as I have food I don't need when someone else has none, or have 2 coats & someone else has none, I share in a constantly repeated crime


One person has no right to have control over the many, and the many do not have the right to control one person.


My unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.


One of the most harmful superstitions is to believe that it is possible to compel people to live a good life through violence.


Do not ask others to do the things you can do yourself.


The employee was shocked. He said, "How can you forgive him? All the other employees will follow his example and rob you blind."


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