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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Wealth brings a heavy purse poverty, a light spirit.
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The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.
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The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity and if so, where it lies?
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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
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Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive, thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position.
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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
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We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?
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The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
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