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Novelist
September 9
, 1828 -
November 20
, 1910
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.
Leo Tolstoy
Life
Arrogance
Better
Better Person
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
Work
God
Moment
You
Look
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
Patience
War
Time
Powerful
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy
Nature
Happiness
Man
Broken
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
Life
Happiness
Service
People
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Change
World
Everyone
Himself
Thinks
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
Life
Humanity
Meaning
Meaning Of Life
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy
Life
Change
Live
New
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy
Death
Shadow
Two
Valley
Make
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
Truth
Simplicity
Great
Greatness
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
Art
Feeling
Artist
Handicraft
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness
Be Happy
You
Happy
Want
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.
Leo Tolstoy
Myself
Man
Me
I Am
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Family
Happy
Unhappy
Way
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.
Leo Tolstoy
Men
God
Words
Done
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music
Emotion
Shorthand
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy
Life
I Am
Impossible
Without
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
Man
Humanity
Instrument
Universal
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy
Law
Lie
Limits
Way
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy
Men
Time
Live
Reason
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
People
Go
Questions
Deaf
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
Love
Understand
Everything
Only
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
Desire
Boredom
Desires
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy
Stupid
Abnormal
Nietzsche
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy
Men
Government
Rest
Violence
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy
Style
Opinion
Never
Whatever
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