Leo Tolstoy Quotes
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
