1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.

What is bad? What is Good? What should one love, what hate? Why live and what am I? What is life, what is death? What power rules over everything?

A clever person cannot be evil. A kind person is always clever. Improve your kindness by exercising your intellect, and improve your intellect by exercising your kindness and love.

Я нигде так не скучал по деревне, русской деревне, с лаптями и мужиками, как прожив с матушкой зиму в Ницце. Ницца сама по себе скучна, вы знаете. Да и Неаполь, Сорренто хороши только на короткое время. И именно там особенно живо вспоминается Россия, и именно деревня.

La esposa del jan era débil, estúpida e insolente, como suelen ser todas las mujeres a quienes no dirige un hombre

If our husbands didn’t talk to us, we should see the facts as they are.

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions.

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Then the doctor, a young man, not quite a Nihilist perhaps, but you know, eats with his knife...but a very good doctor.