The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“Tushin did not tell him that there were no covering troops, though that was the plain truth. He was afraid to let… — Leo Tolstoy Ethics-and-morality Copy Share Image
“the most minute accuracy in my mind, while Mamma’s face and attitude escape me entirely. It may be that it is because… — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other… — Leo Tolstoy Darkness Copy Share Image
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister,… — Leo Tolstoy Confidence Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Leo Tolstoy Another world Copy Share Image
“What a boy, cousin! He ought to have been whipped, but the trick was so spirited and amusing that I let him… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In his Petersburg world people were divided into two quite opposite sorts. One--the inferior sort: the paltry, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a… — Leo Tolstoy Dinner time Copy Share Image
“Indeed, a bird is made in such a way that it can fly, gather food and build a nest, and when I… — Leo Tolstoy Bird Copy Share Image
“But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that in reality, looking upon… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions… — Leo Tolstoy Real power Copy Share Image
“There is nothing, nothing certain but the nothingness of all that is comprehensible to us, and the grandeur of something incomprehensible, but… — Leo Tolstoy Nothingness Copy Share Image
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of… — Leo Tolstoy Brutality Copy Share Image
“This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No, you’re going in vain,” she mentally addressed a company in a coach-and-four who were evidently going out of town for some… — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
“Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and… — Leo Tolstoy Habits Copy Share Image
“You wait a bit, wait a bit," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling and touching his hand. "I've told you what I know, and… — Leo Tolstoy Luck Copy Share Image
“Yes, I suppose so," answered Anna, as though wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what… — Leo Tolstoy Epic poems Copy Share Image
Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was unpleasant for her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people’s… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must… — Leo Tolstoy Agony Copy Share Image
“[Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It’s absurd that having started writing rules at fifteen, I should still be writing them at thirty, without having trusted in, or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power—the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns—should… — Leo Tolstoy Consent Copy Share Image
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
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