Napoleon invades Russia; love and suffering endure; peace returns.

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Celebrating Leo Tolstoy's birthday with one of my favourite sentences he put to paper:

And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.

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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
-Russian author Leo Tolstoy, born on this day in 1828

As a thinker and writer, he wrestled with the complex and often conflicting ideas of what gave life meaning.

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