Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you.… — 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
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — 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
