He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. — Leo Tolstoy Fashion Copy Share Image
“–Nadie está contento de su fortuna ni descontento de su inteligencia” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life. — Leo Tolstoy Grow Copy Share Image
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and… — Leo Tolstoy Answers Copy Share Image
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy Deaf Copy Share Image
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. — Leo Tolstoy Eye Copy Share Image
“Why is gambling forbidden while women in costumes which evoke sensuality are not forbidden? They are a thousand times more dangerous!” — Leo Tolstoy Sand Time Copy Share Image
With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks. — Leo Tolstoy Hands Copy Share Image
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good… — Leo Tolstoy Conflict Copy Share Image
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Leo Tolstoy Calm Copy Share Image
“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner,… — Leo Tolstoy Habits Copy Share Image
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison,… — Leo Tolstoy Attractive Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to… — Leo Tolstoy Grass Copy Share Image
“Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a… — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal… — Leo Tolstoy Animal life Copy Share Image
“It was only at her prayers that she felt able to think calmly and clearly either of Prince Andrey or Anatole, with… — Leo Tolstoy Prayer Copy Share Image
Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is… — Leo Tolstoy Agreement Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of Christ, which teaches love, humility, and self-denial, had always attracted me. But I found a contrary law, both in… — Leo Tolstoy Animal instinct Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Abolish Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most commonest and most widespread misconceptions that every person has a fixed set of qualities; he is… — Leo Tolstoy Qualities Copy Share Image
“How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of… — Leo Tolstoy Assignment Copy Share Image
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Advantage Copy Share Image
“Pfuel was one of those theoreticians who so love their theory that they lose sight of the theory's object—its practical application. His… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“Being lost and dead he had only to lie still, and was no longer obliged to wander through the pathless taiga. Otherwise,… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined. — Leo Tolstoy Exercise Copy Share Image
In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom. — Leo Tolstoy Chiefs Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — Leo Tolstoy Amusement Copy Share Image
