People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve l…

Leo Tolstoy
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad. ✨ Path of Life. Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 210, 1909.
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One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2012). War and Peace, p.111, Modern Library
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad. ✨ Path of Life. Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 210, 1909.

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