The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOYIf everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
LEO TOLSTOYLife did not stop, and one had to live.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
LEO TOLSTOYHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYThe Kingdom of God is Within You.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYReal wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOYMusic is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOYThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
LEO TOLSTOY