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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.
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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 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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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
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In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.
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If you want to be happy, just be.
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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.
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We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life
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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
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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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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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I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity and if so, where it lies?
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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
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