“As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, with his usual assurance that whatever entered his head was right, wrote to Kutuzov the first words that occurred to him,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts… — 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
