There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All this was clear to me, and I was glad and at peace. Then it is as if someone is saying to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How can it be that I’ve never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart… — 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
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
“...And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace, in delivering addresses, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification. All” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism. — 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
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