What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.


Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here...
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity...
LEO TOLSTOY
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...
LEO TOLSTOY
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOY
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOY
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
LEO TOLSTOY
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOY
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army comman...
LEO TOLSTOY
The strongest of all warriors are these two
LEO TOLSTOY
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I ...
LEO TOLSTOY
A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresisti...
LEO TOLSTOY
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
LEO TOLSTOY
I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
LEO TOLSTOY
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state...
LEO TOLSTOY
The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body sh...
LEO TOLSTOY
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they ...
LEO TOLSTOY
There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
LEO TOLSTOY
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that ...
LEO TOLSTOY
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very ...
LEO TOLSTOY
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY
He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
LEO TOLSTOY
All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
LEO TOLSTOY
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid...
LEO TOLSTOY
Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in...
LEO TOLSTOY
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
LEO TOLSTOY
How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
LEO TOLSTOY
The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.
LEO TOLSTOY
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he...
LEO TOLSTOY
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOY
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
LEO TOLSTOY
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOY
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOY
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the...
LEO TOLSTOY
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer...
LEO TOLSTOY
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
LEO TOLSTOY
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continue...
LEO TOLSTOY
Boredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOY
If you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOY
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
LEO TOLSTOY
He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspecte...
LEO TOLSTOY
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else i...
LEO TOLSTOY
Everything intelligent is so boring.
LEO TOLSTOY
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others tha...
LEO TOLSTOY
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
LEO TOLSTOY
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the histori...
LEO TOLSTOY
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their app...
LEO TOLSTOY