γνῶθι σαυτόν

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.” Leo Tolstoy

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“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” Leo Tolstoy

“Rest, nature, books, music … such is my idea of happiness.” Leo Tolstoy

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“Everything I understand I understand because I love.” Leo Tolstoy

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“Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by
violating his own feelings becomes cruel. As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” Leo Tolstoy