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Kings are the slaves of history.

Kings are the slaves of history.

Leo Tolstoy
Kings, History, Historical
Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.605, Vintage

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy
Funny, Humor, History

Happy people have no history.

Leo Tolstoy
People, History, Happy People
Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.743, Yale University Press

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

Leo Tolstoy
People, History, Humanity
Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1344, Modern Library

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