The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get. — Leo Tolstoy 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
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in… — 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
