51 Quotations by Leo Tolstoy
- 1. A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of hi ...
- 2. A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workin ...
- 3. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- 4. All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what ...
- 5. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
- 6. And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them th ...
- 7. And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid ...
- 8. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
- 9. Boredom: the desire for desires.
- 10. Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
- 11. Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
- 12. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- 13. Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
- 14. Faith is the force of life
- 15. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
- 16. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in conf ...
- 17. Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- 18. Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid ...
- 19. I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a ...
- 20. I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I ...
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