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
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — 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
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
“I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The next Post brought a reply from the starets, who wrote to him that the cause of all his trouble lay in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming… — 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
