Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Abdication Copy Share Image
“As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Christianity, expecting from its adherents gentleness, meekness, peaceableness, forgiveness of injuries, turning the other cheek when one is struck, and love for… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchy Copy Share Image
“I must ask what it is you want of me?" "What can I want? All I can want is that you should… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Only now did Pierre understand the full force of human vitality and the saving power of the shifting of attention that has… — Leo Tolstoy Pierre Copy Share Image
“Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the same form. They were always expressed by… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“one may sit for several hours at a stretch with one's legs crossed in the same position, if one knows that there's… — Leo Tolstoy Humor Copy Share Image
“there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him… — Leo Tolstoy Adultery Copy Share Image
“Lord have mercy! Pardon and help us!" he repeated the words that suddenly and unexpectedly sprang to his lips. And he, an… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag's horns, the bookshelves,… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life, which is the more free the more abstract its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The aim of the sinless One consists in acting without causing sorrow to others, although he could attain to great power by… — Leo Tolstoy Evil doers Copy Share Image
Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of… — Leo Tolstoy Execution Copy Share Image
“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much… — Leo Tolstoy Christian truth Copy Share Image
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took… — Leo Tolstoy Human nature Copy Share Image
“How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications… — Leo Tolstoy Action 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 Copy Share Image
One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He thought of the meetings of a committee of which Berg was a member. He remembered how carefully and at what length… — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment… — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Throughout the performance Levin felt like a deaf person watching a dance. He was quite perplexed when the music stopped and felt… — Leo Tolstoy Dance Copy Share Image
“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As estrelas, como se soubessem que agora ninguém as observava, começaram a brincar no céu negro. Ora chamejavam, ora apagavam, ora tremeluziam,… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It… — Leo Tolstoy Being loved 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 Copy Share Image
“Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But… — Leo Tolstoy Human error Copy Share Image
It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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