“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
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Available Copy Share Image
“Said He, whoever exalts himself, shall be humbled, and he who is humbled shall become exalted.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife. "What's to be… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details,” — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
“I do not live my own life, there is something stronger than me which directs me. I suffer; but formerly I was… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming… — Leo Tolstoy Arrogance Copy Share Image
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
“He studied the people of Moscow at the theaters, in the clubs, in the streets, looking for the types he needed. A… — Leo Tolstoy Great man Copy Share Image
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Culture Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyich smiled. He knew so well this feeling of Levin's, knew that for him all the girls in the world were… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to… — Leo Tolstoy Every morning Copy Share Image
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has… — Leo Tolstoy Direct Copy Share Image
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible… — Leo Tolstoy Common Copy Share Image
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison,… — Leo Tolstoy Attractive Copy Share Image
“after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth” — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“I find it difficult now to recall and understand the dreams which then filled my imagination. Even when I can recall them,… — Leo Tolstoy Dreams Copy Share Image
“The rivalry of the European states in constantly increasing their forces has reduced them to the necessity of having recourse to universal… — Leo Tolstoy Military service Copy Share Image
“If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for… — Leo Tolstoy Father mother Copy Share Image
“All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance—all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
