1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.

In town a man can live for a hundred years without noticing that he has long been dead and has rotten away.

God gave the day, God gave the strength.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Pierre's madness consisted in not waiting, as he had formerly done, to discover personal attributes which he called "good qualities" in people before loving them: his heart overflowed with love, and by loving without cause he never failed to discover undeniable reasons for loving.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Я люблю, когда называют извергом какого-нибудь завоевателя, для своего честолюбия губящего миллионы. Да спросите по совести прапорщика Петрушова и подпоручика Антонова и т. д., всякий из них маленький Наполеон, маленький изверг и сейчас готов затеять сражение, убить человек сотню для того только, чтоб получить лишнюю звездочку или треть жалованья.("Севастопольские рассказы", Л.Н. Толстой)

Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.

That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a mass of things are made which are of no use to anybody, and with which nothing can be done).