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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.
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There is no genius where there is not simplicity.
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Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.
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Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.
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… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
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Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?
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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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But the peasants - how do the peasants die?
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Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
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There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.
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Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.
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The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
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God knows, but He's waiting
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Energy rests upon love and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
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