“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it… — 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
“He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible. He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as… — 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
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
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.” — 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
“Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle. — 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
