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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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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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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.
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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement art is great matter.
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And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.
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Vengeance is mine I will repay.
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Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.
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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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In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.
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One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.
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The compassionate are not rich therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
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It is very difficult to tell the truth.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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I have discovered nothing new I have only perceived what I already knew.
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