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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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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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No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.
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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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Many people have ideas on how others should change few people have ideas on how they should change.
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He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
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The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them then work which one hopes may be of some use then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
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There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
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