“Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. — Leo Tolstoy 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 Copy Share Image
“Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” he concluded.” — Leo Tolstoy 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 Copy Share Image
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He thought of the meetings of a committee of which Berg was a member. He remembered how carefully and at what length… — 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 Copy Share Image
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“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… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
