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“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified.

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word 'justice'. All the complex laws of man centered for her in one clear and simple law—the law of love and self-sacrifice taught us by Him who lovingly suffered for mankind though He Himself was God. What had she to do with justice or injustice of other people? She had to endure and love, and that she did.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels?”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace