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Honest work is much better than a mansion.
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 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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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.
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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
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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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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
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Our body is a machine for living.
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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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And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself he went on living.
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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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The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.
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Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?
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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
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Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
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