“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. — 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
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man. — 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
