“The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly… — Leo Tolstoy Family life Copy Share Image
Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
“My second sentiment was a craving for love. I wanted every one to know me and to love me. I wanted to… — Leo Tolstoy Craving Copy Share Image
“The hero of my tale,” Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, “whom I love with all the power of my soul,… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him--and intelligent Russian--the inexplicable importance attached to… — Leo Tolstoy Russian Inexplicable Copy Share Image
“mentioning 'our days' as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of… — Leo Tolstoy Days People Copy Share Image
“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our… — Leo Tolstoy Battle Copy Share Image
“But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was… — Leo Tolstoy Infatuation Copy Share Image
“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with… — Leo Tolstoy Grief-inspirational Copy Share Image
The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon… — Leo Tolstoy Criteria Copy Share Image
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped… — Leo Tolstoy Advice Copy Share Image
“She danced the dance so well, so well indeed, so perfectly, that Anisya Fyodorovna, who handed her at once the kerchief she… — Leo Tolstoy Another world Copy Share Image
“In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is… — Leo Tolstoy Bed of roses Copy Share Image
“Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell… — Leo Tolstoy Antichrist 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
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have… — Leo Tolstoy Details Copy Share Image
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning.… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself… — Leo Tolstoy Family-happiness Copy Share Image
“Como se através de uma janela aberta num quarto abafado soprasse de repente um ar fresco do campo, assim também soprou, no… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot… — Leo Tolstoy Command Copy Share Image
The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is… — Leo Tolstoy Example Copy Share Image
“Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.' 'Excuse me, but I absolutely… — Leo Tolstoy Another woman Copy Share Image
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by… — Leo Tolstoy Acceptance Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Absence Copy Share Image
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must… — Leo Tolstoy Forget Copy Share Image
“It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man, to forget what you've said, as I forget… — Leo Tolstoy Anna 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
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to… — Leo Tolstoy Almighty Copy Share Image
“In the morning he would sit down to work, finish his allotted task, then take the little lamp from the hook, put… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,… — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Back and forth 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 Carry Copy Share Image
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
“There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.” — Leo Tolstoy Unimportance Copy Share Image
“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
“The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the… — Leo Tolstoy Humanity Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
“Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but… — Leo Tolstoy Dolly Copy Share Image
![“She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba3/leo-tolstoy-55_humanity_she-was-utterly-unlike-what-she-had-been_2131592.jpg)
