“Afterward I could not help admiring the discrimination of the host and hostess in the distribution of the children’s presents. The little… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“Did the Toyon not see that he, too, had been born like the others—with bright, open eyes, in which heaven and earth… — Leo Tolstoy Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“De la o vreme, Ivan Ilici isi petrecea mai tot timpul incercand sa retraiasca clipele de odinioara, cand vechile sentimente il tinusera… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“Each one of us has to save his own soul, and has to do God's work himself, but instead of that we… — Leo Tolstoy Bible Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving… — Leo Tolstoy Dinner Copy Share Image
“Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him, and it was… — Leo Tolstoy Artificial life Copy Share Image
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchist Copy Share Image
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
“Speransky, either because he appreciated Prince Andrey's abilities or because he thought it as well to secure his adherence, showed off his… — Leo Tolstoy Companionship Copy Share Image
“Yet it was a strange thing that, though we sometimes passed whole hours together without speaking when we were alone, the mere… — Leo Tolstoy Intimacy Copy Share Image
“But though towards the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions, though they would have been… — Leo Tolstoy Battle Copy Share Image
“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,… — Leo Tolstoy Clear vision Copy Share Image
“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our… — Leo Tolstoy Idleness Copy Share Image
A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for… — Leo Tolstoy Advantage Copy Share Image
“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I… — Leo Tolstoy Divine love Copy Share Image
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was… — Leo Tolstoy Deals Copy Share Image
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to… — Leo Tolstoy Answers Copy Share Image
“Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and… — Leo Tolstoy Nature of man Copy Share Image
“Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but… — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
“And I, too, am the same… only there is no love in my heart, or desire for love, no interest in work,… — Leo Tolstoy Contentment Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“Although these words of hers confirmed in me my conviction that I was not handsome, they also confirmed in me an ambition… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail… — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
“But in the course of the war they waged against the taiga, scorching it with fire, and attacking it with iron, Makar’s… — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of… — Leo Tolstoy Easy to fall in love Copy Share Image
“Konstantin Levin regarded his brother as a man of immense intellect and culture, as generous in the highest sense of the word,… — Leo Tolstoy Public affairs Copy Share Image
“They had supper and went away, and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was… — Leo Tolstoy Left alone Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he remembered having heard how soldiers under fire in the trenches, and having nothing to do, try hard to find some… — Leo Tolstoy Government service Copy Share Image
“...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“He thought of nothing, wished for nothing, but not to be left behind the peasants, and to do his work as well… — Leo Tolstoy Left behind Copy Share Image
“Being lost and dead he had only to lie still, and was no longer obliged to wander through the pathless taiga. Otherwise,… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Pfuel was one of those theoreticians who so love their theory that they lose sight of the theory's object—its practical application. His… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in… — Leo Tolstoy Deeds Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most commonest and most widespread misconceptions that every person has a fixed set of qualities; he is… — Leo Tolstoy Qualities Copy Share Image
“ "If you prefer it, Your Excellency, a private room will be free directly: Prince Golitsin with a lady. Fresh oysters have… — Leo Tolstoy Oysters Copy Share Image
“How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of… — Leo Tolstoy Assignment Copy Share Image
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Advantage Copy Share Image
“Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within oneself of the highest universal principle… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of Christ, which teaches love, humility, and self-denial, had always attracted me. But I found a contrary law, both in… — Leo Tolstoy Animal instinct Copy Share Image
