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The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.
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The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.
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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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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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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.
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The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.
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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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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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I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.
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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.
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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
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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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When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, Do what you like now.
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Energy rests upon love and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
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