Leo Tolstoy

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Rusia · 1828 - 1910 · 304 kata bijak

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

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Leo Tolstoy

Kehidupan

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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Kehidupan

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

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Kehidupan

Everything depends on upbringing.

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Sukses

Questions about her feelings, about what has been or might be going on in her soul are non of my business; they are the business of her conscience and belong to religion.

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Kehidupan

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

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Kegagalan

It is pride that makes error and discord among men.

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Motivasi

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

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Kepemimpinan

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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Kegagalan

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

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Pendidikan

Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.

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Kehidupan

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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Kehidupan

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.

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Pendidikan

And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever.

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Nasihat

Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.

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Nasihat

There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him.

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Kebahagiaan

Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.

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Cinta

Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the boundless desire for love -- were the only motives in life?

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Cinta

Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

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Kejujuran

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

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Kehidupan

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

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