Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Leo Tolstoy Calm Copy Share Image
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good… — Leo Tolstoy Conflict Copy Share Image
“Why is gambling forbidden while women in costumes which evoke sensuality are not forbidden? They are a thousand times more dangerous!” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of… — Leo Tolstoy Commander in chief Copy Share Image
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not… — Leo Tolstoy Boldness Copy Share Image
“His father always talked to him—so Seryozha felt—as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not… — Leo Tolstoy Melting snow Copy Share Image
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free,… — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell… — Leo Tolstoy Antichrist Copy Share Image
“In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped… — Leo Tolstoy Advice Copy Share Image
“She danced the dance so well, so well indeed, so perfectly, that Anisya Fyodorovna, who handed her at once the kerchief she… — Leo Tolstoy Another world Copy Share Image
“I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer… — Leo Tolstoy Daily life Copy Share Image
The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will… — Leo Tolstoy Conception Copy Share Image
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one… — Leo Tolstoy Admiration Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch, like all unfaithful husbands indeed, was very solicitous for his wife's comfort” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
“La razón no ha descubierto que se amase al prójimo, porque eso no es razonable. Constantino Levin” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“He is so used to living a purely spiritual life that he cannot reconcile himself to realities, and, after all, Varenka is… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling... — Leo Tolstoy Feelings Copy Share Image
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it. — Leo Tolstoy Creation Copy Share Image
“It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.” — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
