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Leo Tolstoy was a russianwriter who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828,[3] he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and...

As Leo Tolstoy wrote in the introduction to A Calendar of Wisdom: "[...] Another reason some of these thoughts may not correspond to the originals is at times I took a thought from a lengthy and...

Reflections "A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life. Mankind has never achieved greatness but through suffering." ~ F. Robert De Lamennais...