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Sou amigo da divisão do trabalho. Pessoas que não fazem nada devem fazer pessoas, enquanto as demais devem contribuir para a instrução e a felicidade delas. Eis o que penso. Para confundir esses dois ofícios, há uma multidão de amadores, a cujo número não pertenço.


Leo Tolstoy

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LEO TOLSTOY Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...
LEO TOLSTOY Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless re...
LEO TOLSTOY And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty,...
LEO TOLSTOY There is a better way to do it; find it. sign Thomas Edison had hanging in his office A fool vents ...
LEO TOLSTOY God is the same everywhere.
LEO TOLSTOY It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
LEO TOLSTOY Animalele par să știe că progenitura le perpetuează specia și respectă o anumită lege în ace...
LEO TOLSTOY Înainte mă simțeam stingher,chiar panicat,când vedeam o femeie dichisită,în rochie de bal,dar ...
LEO TOLSTOY Este uimitor cât de răspândită este iluzia că frumusețea echivalează cu binele.
LEO TOLSTOY Women have made of themselves such a weapon to act upon the senses that a young man, and even an old...
LEO TOLSTOY Ah! you wish us to be only objects of sensuality? All right; by the aid of sensuality we will bend y...
LEO TOLSTOY Women, especially those who have passed through the school of marriage, know very well that conversa...
LEO TOLSTOY Never had I heard from my elders that what I thus did was bad. It is true that there are the ten com...
LEO TOLSTOY In the city the wretched feel less sad. One can live there a hundred years without being noticed, an...
LEO TOLSTOY The main thing, and the thing which such people as he do not understand," rejoined the lady, "is tha...
LEO TOLSTOY Non si pone come regola, non si prescrive di essere casti; la castità è di per sé un ideale, o a ...
LEO TOLSTOY What is music? What does it do to us? And why does it do to us what it does? People say that music h...
LEO TOLSTOY Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the st...
LEO TOLSTOY Se poate afla cu ușurință cât fier și ce metale se găsesc în soare și în stele,dar să sco�...
LEO TOLSTOY As soon as a young man advances toward a woman, directly he falls under the influence of this opium,...
LEO TOLSTOY Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That ...
LEO TOLSTOY [...] la schiavitù non è altro che il profitto di pochi del lavoro della massa. Perché la schiavi...
LEO TOLSTOY They abolish the external form, they suppress the formal sales of slaves, and then they imagine and ...
LEO TOLSTOY Te miri cum frumuseţea ne dă iluzia deplină a binelui. Când o femeie frumoasă îndrugă prostii...
LEO TOLSTOY «But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, o...
LEO TOLSTOY Music makes me forget myself, my real position; it transports me to some other position not my own. ...
LEO TOLSTOY Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în gener...
LEO TOLSTOY I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wi...
LEO TOLSTOY Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood.
LEO TOLSTOY Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last yo...
LEO TOLSTOY I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in o...
LEO TOLSTOY It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense,...
LEO TOLSTOY Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under th...
LEO TOLSTOY Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mat...
LEO TOLSTOY Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inn...
LEO TOLSTOY While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.
LEO TOLSTOY Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...
LEO TOLSTOY You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...
LEO TOLSTOY Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
LEO TOLSTOY But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOY In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's comp...
LEO TOLSTOY But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina...
LEO TOLSTOY The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY Spring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOY He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing t...
LEO TOLSTOY If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...
LEO TOLSTOY Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...
LEO TOLSTOY I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's...
LEO TOLSTOY All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOY Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was...
LEO TOLSTOY Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had...
LEO TOLSTOY In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubbl...
LEO TOLSTOY Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was ...
LEO TOLSTOY You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love...
LEO TOLSTOY He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happines...
LEO TOLSTOY One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOY The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
LEO TOLSTOY