1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.

There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.

La femme est privée de droits parce qu'elle est privée d'instruction, et le manque d'instruction tient à l’absence de droits. N’oublions pas que l'esclavage de la femme est si ancien, si enraciné dans nos mœurs, que bien souvent nous sommes incapables de comprendre l'abîme légal qui la sépare de nous.

Hay ... tantas clases de amor como corazones

But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.

. . . one must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.

Il pensiero le tornava sempre a un punto: che non c'era nessuno capace d'intendere, neanche lontanamente, tutto quello che lei intendeva, tutto quello che c'era in lei.