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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
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Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.
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