You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocat…

Leo Tolstoy
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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all! ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2015). Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections, p.866, 谷月社
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He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. Where is it? What death? There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2010). The … ▶
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2013). Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On God, Love, the Human Spirit, and Living a Good Life, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all! ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2015). Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections, p.866, 谷月社

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