“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it” — Leo Tolstoy Complain Copy Share Image
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
“And then all at once love turns up, and you're done for, done for.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is… — Leo Tolstoy Baby Copy Share Image
“He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...” — Leo Tolstoy Grandparents Copy Share Image
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin” — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. — Leo Tolstoy Examine 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
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
“the event had to take place simply because it had to take place. Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and their… — Leo Tolstoy Men Gone Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his… — Leo Tolstoy Every man Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, with his usual assurance that whatever entered his head was right, wrote to Kutuzov the first words that occurred to him,… — Leo Tolstoy Confidence Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Capital-accumulation Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Existentialism Copy Share Image
“It's really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she always has enemies, and always… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked… — Leo Tolstoy Circumstances Copy Share Image
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning there was for him in every sound, in every… — Leo Tolstoy Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“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
“knew that the result of a battle is decided not by the orders of a commander in chief, nor the place where… — Leo Tolstoy Commander in chief 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 Frightened Copy Share Image
“The prince enjoyed unusually good health even among princes; both by gymnastic exercises and by taking good care of his body he… — Leo Tolstoy Fitness Copy Share Image
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man,… — Leo Tolstoy Bees Copy Share Image
“The girls noticed that Volodia, who was generally so talkative and gay, seldom spoke now and never smiled and on the whole… — Leo Tolstoy Sisters Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a… — Leo Tolstoy Classic Copy Share Image
“Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess” — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy Patience Copy Share Image
“I don't want to play at life" I said, "But to live.” — Leo Tolstoy Family-happiness Copy Share Image
I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether. — Leo Tolstoy Abstain Copy Share Image
