We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — 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
One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found… — 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
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — 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
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
