it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it. — Leo Tolstoy Better Copy Share Image
“The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth.” — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence? — Leo Tolstoy Doe Copy Share Image
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy Bad woman Copy Share Image
“Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.” — Leo Tolstoy Deceived Copy Share Image
“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.” — Leo Tolstoy Killed Copy Share Image
“strangers in everything: different tastes, views, everything; but I know that you love me and understand me, and for that I love… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“All is over…I have nothing but you, remember that.” “I can never forget what is my whole life.” — Leo Tolstoy Forget Copy Share Image
“the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire” — Leo Tolstoy Brilliance Copy Share Image
“If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.” — Leo Tolstoy Animals Copy Share Image
“It seems that only God can know the truth; it is to Him alone we must appeal, and from Him alone expect… — Leo Tolstoy Compassion Copy Share Image
“In the morning he would sit down to work, finish his allotted task, then take the little lamp from the hook, put… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,… — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Back and forth Copy Share Image
“Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am… — Leo Tolstoy Exploitation Copy Share Image
“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
“The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“A man of the present day, whether he believes in the divinity of Christ or not, cannot fail to see that to… — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
“Kitty got up to fetch a table, and, as she passed, her eyes met Levin's. She felt for him with her whole… — Leo Tolstoy Forgive Said Copy Share Image
“It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when… — Leo Tolstoy Next year Copy Share Image
“Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Only during a period of war does it become obvious how millions of people can be manipulated. People, millions of people, are… — Leo Tolstoy Doing things Copy Share Image
What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is… — Leo Tolstoy Answers Copy Share Image
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine… — Leo Tolstoy Add Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. — Leo Tolstoy Getting old Copy Share Image
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. — Leo Tolstoy Fashion Copy Share Image
