Leo Tolstoy

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?"	Fear
"The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that she can't look at the blood, but enjoys serving the calf up with sauce"	Success, Insults
"There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent."	Wisdom
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."	Wisdom
"I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness."	Anti-God, Attitude
"How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it."	God
"If you want to be happy, be."	Happiness
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies."	Health
"My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat."	Comedy, Help
"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."	Justice
"Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible."	Writing
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."	Family

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