Leo-tolstoy Quotes

In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, lin...

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for...

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we th...

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really for...

I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love whi...

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of...

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. ...

Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a wo...

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time ...

One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Ha...