“The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to… — Leo Tolstoy Cruel Copy Share Image
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. — Leo Tolstoy Broken Copy Share Image
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy Done Copy Share Image
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. — Leo Tolstoy Enslavement Copy Share Image
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard… — Leo Tolstoy Attainment Copy Share Image
The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Always happy Copy Share Image
One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it,… — Leo Tolstoy Believe Copy Share Image
“Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it… — Leo Tolstoy Military service Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“Besides, Oblonsky was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going… — Leo Tolstoy Ancestor Copy Share Image
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not… — Leo Tolstoy Cold Copy Share Image
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has… — Leo Tolstoy Direct Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If… — Leo Tolstoy Armageddon Copy Share Image
“There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and anxieties in the porter’s room… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion,… — Leo Tolstoy Difference-of-opinion Copy Share Image
At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyich smiled. He knew so well this feeling of Levin's, knew that for him all the girls in the world were… — Leo Tolstoy Smiled Copy Share Image
“A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to… — Leo Tolstoy Authenticity Copy Share Image
“Germans can be self-assured on the basis of an abstract idea—science, that is, an imaginary knowledge of the perfect truth. A Frenchman… — Leo Tolstoy Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And… — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a… — Leo Tolstoy Alive Copy Share Image
“The old oak, utterly transformed, draped in a tent of sappy dark green, basked faintly, undulating in the rays of the evening… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past… — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them… — Leo Tolstoy Acceptance Copy Share Image
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. — Leo Tolstoy Fever Copy Share Image
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which… — Leo Tolstoy Feet Copy Share Image
“If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated” — Leo Tolstoy Human life Copy Share Image
“Todas as famílias felizes são iguais. As infelizes o são cada uma à sua maneira” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy Bases Copy Share Image
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy Bad woman Copy Share Image
“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. — Leo Tolstoy Christian love Copy Share Image
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one… — Leo Tolstoy Always loved you Copy Share Image
“Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.” — Leo Tolstoy Deceived Copy Share Image
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy Effort Copy Share Image
“How nicely Turovtsin laughs!" said Levin, admiring his moist eyes and shaking chest.” — Leo Tolstoy Laughter Copy Share Image
“All is over…I have nothing but you, remember that.” “I can never forget what is my whole life.” — Leo Tolstoy Forget Copy Share Image
“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.” — Leo Tolstoy Killed Copy Share Image
