“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
“We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute,… — Leo Tolstoy Humanity Copy Share Image
“The aim of the sinless One consists in acting without causing sorrow to others, although he could attain to great power by… — Leo Tolstoy Evil doers Copy Share Image
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
“He did not know that Levin was feeling as though he had grown wings. Levin knew she was listening to his words… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain… — Leo Tolstoy Future life Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Bears Copy Share Image
“She repeated continually, "My God! my God!" But neither "God" nor "my" had any meaning to her.” — Leo Tolstoy God Copy Share Image
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did not succeed in… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“–Nadie está contento de su fortuna ni descontento de su inteligencia” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister,… — Leo Tolstoy Confidence Copy Share Image
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy Eternity Copy Share Image
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. — Leo Tolstoy Goodness Copy Share Image
I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right… — Leo Tolstoy Harm Copy Share Image
“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy Human wisdom 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 really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye! Who is not a sinner… — Leo Tolstoy Fault Copy Share Image
“Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.” — Leo Tolstoy 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
“Andrei Khrisanfitch returned to his room to smoke a little till there was another ring at the door, and Yefimya ceased speaking,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. — Leo Tolstoy Human soul Copy Share Image
