“If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.” — Leo Tolstoy Animals Copy Share Image
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — Leo Tolstoy Conditions Copy Share Image
You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with… — Leo Tolstoy Different Copy Share Image
“But a man’s relationship to the world is determined not just by his intellect but by his feelings and by his who… — Leo Tolstoy Essence of life Copy Share Image
“I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Copy Share Image
“Sou amigo da divisão do trabalho. Pessoas que não fazem nada devem fazer pessoas, enquanto as demais devem contribuir para a instrução… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Amusing Copy Share Image
“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the… — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“She saw that they felt themselves alone in that crowded room. And Vronsky’s face, always so firm and independent, held that look… — Leo Tolstoy Lovely face Copy Share Image
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in… — Leo Tolstoy Armenia Copy Share Image
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“Yes, would have been,' he said sadly. 'He's precisely one of those people of whom they say that they're not meant for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. — Leo Tolstoy Accomplish Copy Share Image
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy Accomplish Copy Share Image
He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
“Faith is neither hope nor trust, but a particular spiritual state. Faith is man’s awareness that his position in the world obliges… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What… — Leo Tolstoy Answers Copy Share Image
To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none. — Leo Tolstoy Giving Copy Share Image
“Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to.” — Leo Tolstoy Looking forward Copy Share Image
“There are times when you'd give a whole month away for fifty kopecks, and others when you wouldn't give up half an… — Leo Tolstoy Anti capitalism Copy Share Image
“The whole village has been drunk for the last three days. And as for feast days, it is simply horrible to think… — Leo Tolstoy General welfare Copy Share Image
