A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty.… — Leo Tolstoy Littles Copy Share Image
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at… — Leo Tolstoy Anxiety Copy Share Image
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I… — Leo Tolstoy Alive 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
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“All is over…I have nothing but you, remember that.” “I can never forget what is my whole life.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“My field was God’s earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the… — Leo Tolstoy Imagination Copy Share Image
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. — Leo Tolstoy Impossible Copy Share Image
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the… — Leo Tolstoy Believe Copy Share Image
“And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion,… — Leo Tolstoy Difference-of-opinion Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to love a woman who will never understand the profoundest interests of my life? Is it possible to love… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“S., a clever and truthful man, once told me the story of how he ceased to believe. On a hunting expedition, when… — Leo Tolstoy Adventure Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Music Copy Share Image
Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am… — Leo Tolstoy Mad Copy Share Image
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity… — Leo Tolstoy Capacity Copy Share Image
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step! — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance of his actions which were… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,… — Leo Tolstoy Drama Copy Share Image
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on… — Leo Tolstoy Ache Copy Share Image
“When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Leo Tolstoy Another world Copy Share Image
“Not all will believe in my teaching. And they who will not believe, will hate it; because it bereaves them of that… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
“It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.” — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
