He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be… — 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
