Leo Tolstoy

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhamma...”

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”

“And where love ends, hate begins”

“Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”

“Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life”

“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fa...”

“Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.”

“truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”

“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!”

“When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a pe...”

“In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one...”

“God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...”

“In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, an...”

“A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, fl...”

“The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end ever...”

“But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second month, come to loathe the sight of each othe...”

“I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy...”

“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”