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Leo Tolstoy

Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910)

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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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