Leo Tolstoy Quotes.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
