I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at? — 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… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life… — 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
If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — 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
At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the… — 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
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not… — 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
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — 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
