But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink -- he recovered. Auteur: Leo Tolstoy Copy Quote More from Leo Tolstoy “Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can'…” “He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind …” “War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to un…” “I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the …”