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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
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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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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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Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.
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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.
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Wealth brings a heavy purse poverty, a light spirit.
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There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
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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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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
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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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And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.
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Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.
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Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.
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If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.
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Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!
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A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.
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the same question arose in every soul: For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?... p982
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