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Many people have ideas on how others should change few people have ideas on how they should change.
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 must be cunning and wicked in this world.
Leo Tolstoy
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
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A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away
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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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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 business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
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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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In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.
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Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
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The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!
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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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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.
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Commit no act that is contrary to love.
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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
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There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.
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Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.
Leo Tolstoy
