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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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When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them then work which one hopes may be of some use then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
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All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.
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The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
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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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There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.
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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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Enough or not...it will have to do
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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
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Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
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Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.
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... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.
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If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.
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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.
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