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it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
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 earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
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A holy spirit lives within you.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.
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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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In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'
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Read less, study less, but think more
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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.
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And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.
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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
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There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.
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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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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
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I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.
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What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?
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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
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Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
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