“Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
“He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round,… — Leo Tolstoy Time Copy Share Image
“Lord have mercy! Pardon and help us!" he repeated the words that suddenly and unexpectedly sprang to his lips. And he, an… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget myself, my real position; it transports me to some other position not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Music Copy Share Image
Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools. — Leo Tolstoy Educate 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… — Leo Tolstoy Children 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
“Pierre’s heart thrilled to these words as he gazed with shining eyes into the mason’s face. He listened without interrupting or asking… — Leo Tolstoy Shining eyes Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Culture Copy Share Image
“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.” — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. — Leo Tolstoy Conditions Copy Share Image
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing… — Leo Tolstoy Believe Copy Share Image
“Much sand has run out since then, many recollections of the past have faded from my memory or become blurred in indistinct… — Leo Tolstoy Dreams 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
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign… — Leo Tolstoy Peace Copy Share Image
“Returned home for dinner and dined alone—the countess had many visitors I do not like. I ate and drank moderately and after… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after… — Leo Tolstoy Cigar Copy Share Image
“Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And… — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am… — Leo Tolstoy Ease Copy Share Image
“The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the baroness's dress. But it… — Leo Tolstoy Coffee Copy Share Image
