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I love everybody and pity everybody. — Leo Tolstoy

I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; — Leo Tolstoy

There is, and can be, no cause of a historical event except the one cause of all causes. But — Leo Tolstoy

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — Leo Tolstoy

My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons ... — Leo Tolstoy

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart. — Leo Tolstoy

Pierre held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful bosom as it rose and fell. — Leo Tolstoy

Ah! you wish us to be only objects of sensuality? All right; by the aid of sensuality we will bend you beneath our yoke,' say the woman. — Leo Tolstoy

Book is a nice companion — Leo Tolstoy

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy

But his voice was broken, his face pale, — Leo Tolstoy

The greatest human achievement is love. — Leo Tolstoy

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy

Kings are the slaves of history. — Leo Tolstoy

Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels? — Leo Tolstoy

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered. — Leo Tolstoy

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man. — Leo Tolstoy

How can one be well...when one suffers morally? — Leo Tolstoy

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before ... — Leo Tolstoy

The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress. — Leo Tolstoy

Can't you go tomorrow?' she said. 'No, I can't! The business I'm going for, the warrant and the money, won't have come by tomorrow,' he replied. — Leo Tolstoy

Is it possible to say what one really feels? — Leo Tolstoy

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy

There is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom. — Leo Tolstoy

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. — Leo Tolstoy

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness. — Leo Tolstoy

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? — Leo Tolstoy

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them. — Leo Tolstoy

I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody. — Leo Tolstoy

All art has this characteristic-it unites people. — Leo Tolstoy

Money, in itself, is evil. And therefore he who gives money gives evil. — Leo Tolstoy

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy

They get a glimpse of red lips under a short veil, and exquisite little feet. — Leo Tolstoy

All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance - all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring in this? — Leo Tolstoy

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace. — Leo Tolstoy

It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to. — Leo Tolstoy

He thought of nothing, desired nothing, except not to lag behind and to do the best job he could. — Leo Tolstoy

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

God gave the day, God gave the strength. — Leo Tolstoy

It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome. — Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him. — Leo Tolstoy

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. — Leo Tolstoy

In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that. — Leo Tolstoy

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness — Leo Tolstoy

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. — Leo Tolstoy

Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky ... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere. — Leo Tolstoy

For an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself. — Leo Tolstoy

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."

- Vronksy {Anna Karenina} — Leo Tolstoy

I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife. — Leo Tolstoy

To get rid of an enemy one must love him. — Leo Tolstoy

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. — Leo Tolstoy

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. — Leo Tolstoy

To love life is to love God. — Leo Tolstoy

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. — Leo Tolstoy

So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy! — Leo Tolstoy

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings. — Leo Tolstoy

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. — Leo Tolstoy

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. — Leo Tolstoy

If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present. — Leo Tolstoy

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. — Leo Tolstoy

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy

One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense. — Leo Tolstoy

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy

If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars, he said. — Leo Tolstoy

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it? — Leo Tolstoy

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. — Leo Tolstoy

But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink
he recovered. — Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent — Leo Tolstoy

The struggle for existence and hatred are the only things that unite people. — Leo Tolstoy

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. — Leo Tolstoy

An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait. — Leo Tolstoy

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare. — Leo Tolstoy

Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more! — Leo Tolstoy

True nonresistance is the one true resistance to evil. It kills and finally destroys the evil sentiment. — Leo Tolstoy

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy

It often struck me as strange and disagreeable to hear him utter severe strictures upon some of these persons who seemed to me so good. — Leo Tolstoy

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling ... — Leo Tolstoy

The further one goes, the better the land seems. — Leo Tolstoy

The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint. — Leo Tolstoy

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy

The activity of art is ... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — Leo Tolstoy

The best solution is to be kind and good while ignoring the opinions of others. — Leo Tolstoy

But live while you live, tomorrow you die ... — Leo Tolstoy

Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children. — Leo Tolstoy

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling. — Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion — Leo Tolstoy

If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. — Leo Tolstoy

Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, there is a minuscule difference between those who know a lot and those who know very little. — Leo Tolstoy

But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false. — Leo Tolstoy

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy

On which side is truth, - on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself? — Leo Tolstoy

I was afraid of life and strove against it, yet I still hoped for something from it. — Leo Tolstoy

Our body is a machine for living. — Leo Tolstoy

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. — Leo Tolstoy

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is! — Leo Tolstoy

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? ... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy

The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures — Leo Tolstoy