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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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The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
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Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.
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Life is fragile and absurd.
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He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
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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.
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
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With friends, one is well but at home, one is better.
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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.
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Wealth brings a heavy purse poverty, a light spirit.
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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
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There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
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Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.
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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
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... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
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There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'
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