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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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• Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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  Happiness, You Make Me Happy, Vacation

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• I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

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  Reading, Circles, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

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  God, Childhood, Unhappy

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• What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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  Knowing, Important, Quality

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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  Unhappiness, Unsaid, Left

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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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• Read less, study less, but think more

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Study

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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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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  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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• Music is love in search of a voice.

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  Music, Voice, Music Is

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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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• Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

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  Appreciate, Worry, Contentment

  LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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• The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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  Inspirational, Intelligent, Men

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, David Taffel (2005). “The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life”, p.45, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

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  Order, People, Want

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

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  Secret, Doe, Messengers

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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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• ...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.574, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

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  Work, People, Political

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1899). “The Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi”

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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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• ...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

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  Giving Up, Achievement, Remember

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• Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

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  Mad, Responsible, Seeing

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1947). “Resurrection”

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• The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

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  Kindness, Intelligent, Mysterious Things

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• 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.

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  Arrogant Person, Perfect, Arrogance

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy (p. 110), 1909.

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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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