{"author":"Leo Tolstoy","author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy","total_quotes":423,"quotes":[{"text":"Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["hate","love","relationships"],"id":1461,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["life","body","living "],"id":1974,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and bronzes, everything dark and gleaming—all the effects a certain class of people produce so as to look like people of a certain class. And his place looked so much like the others that it would never have been noticed, though it all seemed quite exceptional to him.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["class","death","furniture"],"id":2649,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["humanity","nothing","wisdom"],"id":3970,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["christian","inspirational","religious"],"id":4074,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all that went on in church, believed that they must believe, because the higher authorities and the Tsar himself believed in it. Besides, though faintly (and themselves unable to explain why), they felt that this faith defended their cruel occupations. If this faith did not exist it would have been more difficult, perhaps impossible, for them to use all their powers to torment people, as they were now doing, with a quiet conscience. The inspector was such a kind-hearted man that he could not have lived as he was now living unsupported by his faith.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["dogma","faith","human-nature","incarceration"],"id":5863,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["death","forgiveness","suicide"],"id":6828,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"We are asleep until we fall in Love!","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["love"],"id":7102,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["life-and-death"],"id":8224,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"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.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["justice"],"id":8241,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":423,"pages":43,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}