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
“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.” — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
“Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” he concluded.” — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Anniversary Copy Share Image
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be… — Leo Tolstoy Deeds Copy Share Image
“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.” — Leo Tolstoy Idleness Copy Share Image
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy Eternity Copy Share Image
“Ružan čin možeš da ne ponoviš i možeš da se pokaješ zbog njega, ali ružne misli rađaju isključivo ružne čini. Ružan čin… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search… — Leo Tolstoy Intellect Copy Share Image
“The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with dew; a nightingale struck up in… — Leo Tolstoy Gardening Copy Share Image
“a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
“The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an… — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A thought can advance your life in the right direction only when it answers questions which were asked by your soul. A… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“The whole village has been drunk for the last three days. And as for feast days, it is simply horrible to think… — Leo Tolstoy General welfare Copy Share Image
“He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were divided into two… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the… — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
“If you love God with all your soul, then you know your life does not end with your death. They asked a… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“As soon as she had gone out, swift, swift light steps sounded on the parquet, and his bliss, his life, himself -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Papa was a gentleman of the last century, with all the chivalrous character, self-reliance, and gallantry of the youth of that time.… — Leo Tolstoy Gentleman Copy Share Image
“But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy. — Leo Tolstoy Blasphemy Copy Share Image
“Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And the dog you're taking with you will be no help to you. You can't get away from yourselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse. — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and… — Leo Tolstoy Aspirations Copy Share Image
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Adultery Copy Share Image
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.” — Leo Tolstoy Energy Copy Share Image
Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who… — Leo Tolstoy Men Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
