it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely… — 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
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare… — 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
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity… — 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
There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — 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
