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WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)

Book by Leo Tolstoy · 8 quotes · Men, Soul, Whole

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WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author) Quotes

“Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.”

“The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.”

“The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.”

“The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.”

“It is very difficult to tell the truth.”

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

“He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.”

“Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”