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Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives
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Happiness is pleasure without regret
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There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.
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but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.
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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.
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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
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I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.
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When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!
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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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Error is the force that welds men together truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
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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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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
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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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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
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Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
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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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We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
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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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