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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
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Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.
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You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.
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The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me! thought Pierre. And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!
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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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This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
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And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.
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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.
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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
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We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.
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Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
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It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.
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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?
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Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.
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The compassionate are not rich therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
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