Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
passion men habit
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
lying deceit sin
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
our-love different drifting
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
heart men different
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.
men thinking order
…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.
peace if-you-love-me ifs
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
dream spring desire
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.
queens discipline nonsense
Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!
stones bread raises
Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".
inspirational life dream
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
wall regret wife
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!
despair would-be ends
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.
peace illusion has-beens
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.
men law skills
It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.