Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. 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
