Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011)…

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.428, Vintage
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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires B … ▶
In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.
It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.64, Vintage
There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.428, Vintage

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