“Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. — Leo Tolstoy Knowledge Copy Share Image
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness — Leo Tolstoy Effort Copy Share Image
The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy Discovering Copy Share Image
“Bethink yourselves whether it is righteous to obey man more than God,” — Leo Tolstoy Obey Copy Share Image
“intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party...” — leo tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and… — Leo Tolstoy Born Copy Share Image
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves… — Leo Tolstoy Hate Copy Share Image
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Character Copy Share Image
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents. — Leo Tolstoy Accidents Copy Share Image
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
“I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
“We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them” — Leo Tolstoy Good Copy Share Image
“Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.' 'Excuse me, but I absolutely… — Leo Tolstoy Another woman Copy Share Image
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by… — Leo Tolstoy Acceptance Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Absence Copy Share Image
“But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was… — Leo Tolstoy Infatuation Copy Share Image
“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our… — Leo Tolstoy Battle Copy Share Image
“Como se através de uma janela aberta num quarto abafado soprasse de repente um ar fresco do campo, assim também soprou, no… — 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… — Leo Tolstoy Command Copy Share Image
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Entertainment 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 Faith Copy Share Image
“Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life,… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read,… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according… — Leo Tolstoy Beheading Copy Share Image
“So they are even more frightened than we are,' he thought. 'Why, is this all that's meant by heroism? And did I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.… — Leo Tolstoy Liberal Copy Share Image
“He got up, wishing to go around, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox right over Helene, behind her back. Helene moved… — Leo Tolstoy Perfume Copy Share Image
“When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook,… — Leo Tolstoy Dressed Copy Share Image
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. — Leo Tolstoy Conviction Copy Share Image
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. — Leo Tolstoy Stories Copy Share Image
“Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood.” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
