1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

A spiritual wound produced by a rending of the spiritual body is like a physical wound and, strange as it may seem, just as a deep wound may heal and its edges join, physical and spiritual wounds alike can yet heal completely only as the result of a vital force from within.

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound heals over and the edges seem to have knit, a wound in the soul, like a physical wound, can be healed only by the force of life pushing up from inside.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.