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

Mimpi

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

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Seni

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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Cinta

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

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Motivasi

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

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Kehidupan

It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it.

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Kepemimpinan

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

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Kepemimpinan

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

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Kepemimpinan

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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Kepemimpinan

In precisely the same way the specialty of government is not to obey, but to enforce obedience. And a government is only a government so long as it can make itself obeyed, and therefore it always strives for that and will never willingly abandon its power.

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Kehidupan

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

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Kehidupan

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

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Kehidupan

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

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Sukses

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

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Kebahagiaan

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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Sukses

Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.

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Doa

To love life is to love God.

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Keluarga

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

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Humor

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.

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Kehidupan

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.

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Doa

God gave the day, God gave the strength.

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