Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
Leo Tolstoy quotes about
kindness intelligent mysterious-things
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.
couple husband agreement
In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.
holiness spirit holy
A holy spirit lives within you.
kindness thoughtful people
The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people.
latin wish firsts
Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
chiefs
In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.
pride men order
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.
prayer tools world
Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.
live-for-others life-is life-happiness
He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
nurse world india
India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world
government evil anarchy
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
nature heart men
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
beauty pleasure particular
We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.
heart men despair
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.