"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.“
-Leo Tolstoy
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
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"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
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"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
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"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
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"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
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