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

Kegagalan

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

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Cinta

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

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Kebahagiaan

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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Keluarga

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

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Kejujuran

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

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Pendidikan

Patriotism and its results--wars--give an enormous revenue to the newspaper trade, and profits to many other trades. Every writer, teacher, and professor is more secure in his place the more he preaches patriotism. Every Emperor and King obtains the more fame the more he is addicted to patriotism.

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Kehidupan

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

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Humor

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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Perjuangan

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

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Kebahagiaan

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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Humor

The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically.

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Motivasi

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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Perjuangan

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

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Kehidupan

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

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Pendidikan

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

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Kebahagiaan

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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Nasihat

My field was God’s earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.

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Humor

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

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Kehidupan

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

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Kebaikan

Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.

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