Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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Leo Tolstoy

Profession : Novelist

Birth : September 9, 1828

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Leo Tolstoy

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Leo Tolstoy

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy