“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.” — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
“Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” he concluded.” — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be… — Leo Tolstoy Deeds Copy Share Image
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Anniversary Copy Share Image
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy Eternity Copy Share Image
“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.” — Leo Tolstoy Idleness Copy Share Image
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy. — Leo Tolstoy Blasphemy Copy Share Image
“How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Absence Copy Share Image
it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics.… — Leo Tolstoy Russia Copy Share Image
“Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been… — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
“In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and… — Leo Tolstoy Class Copy Share Image
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped… — Leo Tolstoy Advice Copy Share Image
“She danced the dance so well, so well indeed, so perfectly, that Anisya Fyodorovna, who handed her at once the kerchief she… — Leo Tolstoy Another world Copy Share Image
“I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in… — Leo Tolstoy Armenia Copy Share Image
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
