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I have discovered nothing new I have only perceived what I already knew.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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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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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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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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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
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