--- title: "4 Brothers Quotes By Leo Tolstoy" description: "4 Brothers quotes by Leo Tolstoy. Plus more from Leo Tolstoy and more Brothers sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f4/leo-tolstoy-55_brothers_we-are-all-brothers-and-yet-i-live-by-re_186264.png" --- > [“We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/we-are-all-brothers-and-yet-i-live-by-receiving-a-salary-for/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f4/leo-tolstoy-55_brothers_we-are-all-brothers-and-yet-i-live-by-re_186264.png) > [“Loss and gain are brothers twain.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/loss-and-gain-are-brothers-twain/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/933/leo-tolstoy-55_brotherhood_loss-and-gain-are-brothers-twain-613425_613425.png) > [“We are all brothers, but I live on a salary paid me for prosecuting, judging, and condemning the thief or the prostitute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/we-are-all-brothers-but-i-live-on-a-salary-paid-me-for-prosecuting/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e9/leo-tolstoy-55_brotherhood_we-are-all-brothers-but-i-live-on-a-sala_731324.jpg) > [“Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/davout-looked-up-and-gazed-intently-at-him-for-some-seconds-they/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccf/leo-tolstoy-55_brothers_davout-looked-up-and-gazed-intently-at-h_2871789.jpg) ## Other authors on Brothers - [Butch Trucks 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/butch-trucks/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kevin-jonas-56828.jpg) Kevin Jonas 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/kevin-jonas/) - [Jacqueline Fernandez 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/jacqueline-fernandez/) - [George R.R. Martin 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/george-r-r-martin/) - [Derek Trucks 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/derek-trucks/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ayn-rand-15943.jpg) Ayn Rand 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/ayn-rand/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-suzy-kassem-596.jpg) Suzy Kassem 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/suzy-kassem/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rob-gronkowski-79364.jpg) Rob Gronkowski 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/rob-gronkowski/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nora-roberts-71909.jpg) Nora Roberts 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/nora-roberts/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-malala-yousafzai-62831.jpg) Malala Yousafzai 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/malala-yousafzai/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-liam-hemsworth-60148.jpg) Liam Hemsworth 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/liam-hemsworth/) ## More by Leo Tolstoy > [These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/these-joys-were-so-trifling-as-to-be-as-imperceptible-as-grains-of/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/the-only-significance-of-life-consists-in-helping-to-establish-the/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/i-already-love-in-you-your-beauty-but-i-am-only-beginning-to-love-in/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/energy-rests-upon-love-and-come-as-it-will-there-s-no-forcing-it/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/if-you-only-knew-what-those-society-women-are-and-women-in-general-my/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/to-evoke-in-oneself-a-feeling-one-has-once-experienced-and-having/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/to-speak-of-it-would-be-giving-importance-to-that-which-has-none/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/once-we-re-thrown-off-our-habitual-paths-we-think-all-is-lost-but-it/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/he-knew-she-was-there-by-the-rapture-and-the-terror-that-seized-on/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/rest-nature-books-music-such-is-my-idea-of-happiness/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/he-was-not-to-blame-for-being-born-with-an-irrepressible-charachter/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/i-ask-one-thing-only-i-ask-for-the-right-to-hope-to-suffer-as-i-do/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/the-idea-shared-by-many-that-life-is-a-vale-of-tears-is-just-as-false/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/to-say-that-a-work-of-art-is-good-but-incomprehensible-to-the/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [True life is lived when tiny changes occur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/true-life-is-lived-when-tiny-changes-occur/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brothers/leo-tolstoy/#itemlist", "name": "4 Brothers Quotes By Leo Tolstoy", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Leo Tolstoy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/we-are-all-brothers-and-yet-i-live-by-receiving-a-salary-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f4/leo-tolstoy-55_brothers_we-are-all-brothers-and-yet-i-live-by-re_186264.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f4/leo-tolstoy-55_brothers_we-are-all-brothers-and-yet-i-live-by-re_186264.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f4/leo-tolstoy-55_brothers_we-are-all-brothers-and-yet-i-live-by-re_186264.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a…” — Leo Tolstoy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Loss and gain are brothers twain.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Leo Tolstoy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/loss-and-gain-are-brothers-twain/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/933/leo-tolstoy-55_brotherhood_loss-and-gain-are-brothers-twain-613425_613425.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/933/leo-tolstoy-55_brotherhood_loss-and-gain-are-brothers-twain-613425_613425.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/933/leo-tolstoy-55_brotherhood_loss-and-gain-are-brothers-twain-613425_613425.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Loss and gain are brothers twain.” — Leo Tolstoy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We are all brothers, but I live on a salary paid me for prosecuting, judging, and condemning the thief or the prostitute whose existence the whole tenor of my life brings about...We are all brothers, but I live on the salary I gain by collecting taxes from needy laborers to be spent on the luxuries of the rich and idle. 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