1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Truth, like gold is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Follow the best way of life you possibly can, and habit will make this way suitable and pleasant to you.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire

Persecution is precious because it reveal whether a person lives with real faith.

Life is a transition from one form to another. The life of this world is the material for a new form.

I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

Let us forgive each other — only then will we live in peace.