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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Life is fragile and absurd.
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When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'
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The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
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It is no sin to look at a nice girl.
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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
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A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
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Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.
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