“Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess” — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy Patience Copy Share Image
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits. — Leo Tolstoy Clothes Copy Share Image
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our… — Leo Tolstoy Dream Copy Share Image
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. — Leo Tolstoy Conditions Copy Share Image
“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life… — Leo Tolstoy Explaining-history Copy Share Image
“He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“show them, not in reasoning but in life itself, the joy of general union beyond the barriers set up by life itself” — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“the education of women is apt to be confounded with the emancipation of women, and that it is only so that it… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the… — Leo Tolstoy Causes Copy Share Image
“I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
“[Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal,… — Leo Tolstoy Certain Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Connected Copy Share Image
“Answer me two more questions,’ said the King. ‘The first is, Why did the earth bear such grain then and has ceased… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only… — Leo Tolstoy Hindsight Copy Share Image
“Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, she had left her tiny baby and a… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share
“According to the biblical tradition the absence of work -- idleness -- was a condition of the first man's state of blessedness… — Leo Tolstoy Military service Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
“Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I… — Leo Tolstoy Music Copy Share Image
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