“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Source: War and Peace
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Famous Leo Tolstoy Quotes
“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Source: The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You
Source: Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910
“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
Source: WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Source: The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide
“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
Source: Essays, letters, miscellanies
Source: Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910
Source: What Is Art?
“He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.”
Source: WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
Source: War and Peace
“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”
Source: War and peace: a novel
Source: War & Peace: The French at Moscow
Source: The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude
“The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Enough or not...it will have to do”
Source: Anna Karénina: In Eight Parts
Source: What Is Art?
“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
Source: Resurrection
Source: War and Peace: plus free audiobook
“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”