Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Money, in itself, is evil. And therefore he who gives money gives evil. ” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are times when you'd give a whole month away for fifty kopecks, and others when you wouldn't give up half an… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — 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
