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I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father” or, “God is One, and also Three” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.
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In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.
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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
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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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Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.
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As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.
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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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Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life
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Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
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He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
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When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!
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Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
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