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• Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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  Wisdom, Ideas, People

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• A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

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  Peace, Morning, Sleep

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• To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

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  Honesty, Business, Integrity

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• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

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  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

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  Summer, Winter, Night

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• The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

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  Atheist, Tragedy, World

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• Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

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  Intelligent, Men, Changing Your Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.15, Vintage

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• People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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  Clever, People, Trying

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 210, 1909.

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• The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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  Wise, Keys, People

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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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  Inspirational, Trust, Spiritual

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• Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

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  Men, Law, Suffering

  Harvey Carr, George Williams Peckham, Mrs. Elizabeth (Gifford) Peckham, John Knight Munro Berry, William Warner Bishop (1887). “Pamphlets in philology and the humanities”

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• Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

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  Clothes, Wit, Meetings

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• Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Bad Day

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• Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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  Change, Inspiring, Self Improvement

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• The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

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  Important, Way, Guides

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

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  Helping Others, Meaning Of Life, Helping

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• There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1071, Vintage

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• The most important time is Now

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  Important, Adaptability

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Tolstoi for the Young”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

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  Forgiveness, Peace, Forgive And Forget

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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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  Jobs, Attitude, Work

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• The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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  Inspirational, Life, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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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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  Kindness, Thoughtful, People

  "A Calendar of Wisdom".

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• Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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  Book, Ideas

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• Music is love in search of a voice.

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  Music, Voice, Music Is

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• You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

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  Love, Enemy, Divine

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.921, Vintage

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