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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Energy rests upon love and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
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War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.
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Everything depends on upbringing.
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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 higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.
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From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
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I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.
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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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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
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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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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing] the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.
Leo Tolstoy
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.
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One can often hear from the young people: I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.
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The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
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Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.
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The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.
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