KATTIMUTHU

“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees them from their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional duties to the honor of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher ranks than themselves.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to the building up of another.”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina