Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. — Leo Tolstoy Empty Copy Share Image
“We should always try to find those things which do not separate us from other people but which unite us. To work… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?” — Leo Tolstoy Dies Copy Share Image
“The greater number of the young women, who envied Anna and had long been weary of hearing her called virtuous, rejoiced at… — Leo Tolstoy Public opinion Copy Share Image
“People often think the question of non-resistance to evil by force is a theoretical one, which can be neglected. Yet this question… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Rostov was not listening to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes dancing above the fire and remembered the Russian winter with… — Leo Tolstoy Healthy body Copy Share Image
“Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even… — Leo Tolstoy Brave man Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she… — Leo Tolstoy Blood Copy Share Image
“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like… — Leo Tolstoy Bicycle Copy Share Image
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. — Leo Tolstoy Circumstances Copy Share Image
The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had… — Leo Tolstoy Dedicated Copy Share Image
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.… — Leo Tolstoy Anthropology Copy Share Image
“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not… — Leo Tolstoy Facts Copy Share Image
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy Discovering Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful!" Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be… — Leo Tolstoy Black eyes Copy Share Image
“[Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. — Leo Tolstoy Indifferent Copy Share Image
A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely… — Leo Tolstoy Conception Copy Share Image
“He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but… — Leo Tolstoy Parenting Copy Share Image
“But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that in reality, looking upon… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
