When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. — Leo Tolstoy Majority Copy Share Image
“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all… — Leo Tolstoy Contempt Copy Share Image
“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself,… — Leo Tolstoy Adultery Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is… — Leo Tolstoy Awake Copy Share Image
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be… — Leo Tolstoy Distress Copy Share Image
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of… — Leo Tolstoy Environmental Copy Share Image
“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered.” — Leo Tolstoy Medicine Copy Share Image
Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following,… — Leo Tolstoy Ask me Copy Share Image
There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before... — Leo Tolstoy Today Copy Share Image
“Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy Learning Copy Share Image
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very… — Leo Tolstoy Clever Copy Share Image
“Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the… — Leo Tolstoy Every man Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Life 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
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered. — Leo Tolstoy Blood Copy Share Image
Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of… — Leo Tolstoy Aids Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
