War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
(Quoted by Leo Tolstoy in The Law of Love and the Law of Violence, 1908)

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Life teaches us that we are never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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