“As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the… — Leo Tolstoy Fashion Copy Share Image
“But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speak—because I'm happy now, happy in hope, anyway… . And then?…… — Leo Tolstoy Hope Copy Share Image
“Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And… — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[T]he social relationship of young women to young men … now seemed to Kitty like ignominious exposure of merchandise to be taken… — Leo Tolstoy Relationship Copy Share Image
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“From another visitor to Yasnaya Polyana we learn that Tolstoy and his two daughters are vegetarians. The young countesses do not object… — Leo Tolstoy Abstinence Copy Share Image
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated… — Leo Tolstoy Animal 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
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign… — Leo Tolstoy Peace Copy Share Image
“My field was God’s earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was swept by a lovely, heart-warming sensation that was quite new to him; the sight of those two little girls had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light,… — Leo Tolstoy Artist Copy Share Image
In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Besides, Oblonsky was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going… — Leo Tolstoy Ancestor Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it… — Leo Tolstoy Military service Copy Share Image
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming… — Leo Tolstoy Arrogance Copy Share Image
Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic… — Leo Tolstoy Career Copy Share Image
“Why do i live? In the infinity of space, and infinity of time infinitely small particles mutate with infinite complexity. When you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and anxieties in the porter’s room… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If… — Leo Tolstoy Armageddon Copy Share Image
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not… — Leo Tolstoy Cold Copy Share Image
“A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how aloof and remote… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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