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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world.

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“The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.”

People Persons Kindness Thoughtful Kinder

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“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.”

People Trying Difficult Activity Clever Simplest Difficult Things

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“All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.”

People Men World Heart Children Important Left Given Enjoy Morning Creatures Spring Bird Men And Women Adults Harmony Sacred Plant Cheating Insects Incline

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.”

People Ifs Thinking Happens Faith Source Faith In God Mistaken There Is No God Unbelief Dismayed

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“The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.”

“All art has this characteristic-it unites people.”

People Art Characteristics

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Trying I Can Play Laughing Violin

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“The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.”

People Humanity History Impossible Subjects Pins Single People

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.”

People Happiness Love Is Always Happy

Author:Leo Tolstoy