“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“strangers in everything: different tastes, views, everything; but I know that you love me and understand me, and for that I love… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Sou amigo da divisão do trabalho. Pessoas que não fazem nada devem fazer pessoas, enquanto as demais devem contribuir para a instrução… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife. "What's to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that this stranger has now become everything to me?" she asked herself, and immediately answered, "Yes, everything! He alone… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pfuel was one of those theoreticians who so love their theory that they lose sight of the theory's object—its practical application. His… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within oneself of the highest universal principle… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of Christ, which teaches love, humility, and self-denial, had always attracted me. But I found a contrary law, both in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
