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 TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOYKings are the slaves of history.
LEO TOLSTOYIs it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOYWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOYA man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
LEO TOLSTOYHuman science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
LEO TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYRespect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYSeize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYSpring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY