Quotes from Leo Tolstoy

Like a cat, she had attached herself not to the people but to the home.

A youth doesn't bother a man to be brave.

There remained only those rare periods of amorousness which still came to them at times but did not last long. These were islets at which they anchored for a while and then again set out upon that ocean of veiled hostility which showed itself in their aloofness from one another. This aloofness might have grieved Ivan Ilych had he considered that it ought not to exist, but he now regarded the position as normal, and even made it the goal at which he aimed in family life. His

Mas, para uma pessoa insatisfeita, é difícil não por a culpa nos outros, sobretudo em quem estiver mais perto de tudo aquilo que causa a sua insatisfação.

What has become of it? Where are you, pain?" He turned his attention to it. "Yes, here it is. Well, what of it? Let the pain be." "And death … where is it?" He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light. "So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy!

Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.

That's just the point, my dear fellow, that cases may arise when the Government does not fulfill the will of its citizens and then Society announces its own will.

Temia como que manchar naquele meio impuro, vicioso, a imagem cândida que tinha na mente.

If we were angels once, why did we end up lower?" asked Nikolai. "No, that can't be!" "Not lower, who told you it's lower?...How do I know what I used to be?

Love is not an earthly but a heavenly feeling

A man knits and knits, and then entangles himself.

Every Russian received the name of one of the saints in the Church calendar, and that saint's day was his or her name day and was kept much as a birthday is kept in England and the United States.—A.M.

It was evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to them.

So much the worse for those who follow the fashion. The only happy marriages I know are marriages of convenience." "Yes, but then how often the happiness of the convenient marriages flies away like dust just because that passion turns up that they have refused to recognize," said Vronsky.

We sin so much, we deceive so much, and all for what? I'm over fifty, my friend … I'll … Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible." He

During the first, in 1857, he forced himself to witness a public execution in Paris, and the sight shook him so deeply that he vowed he would never again serve any government.

Only a man devoid of the sense of measure and of taste could produce such types as "Titus Andronicus" or "Troilus and Cressida,

In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.

Sin embargo, nos queda un medio de salvación: la sangre vertida por el Hijo Unigénito de Dios, que por nosotros sufrió tantos tormentos; pues bien, hermanos, demos gracias a Dios que nos envió a su Hijo sacrosanto. Su divina sangre...

the winning of battles does not necessarily lead to conquest,

he saw the fire only as a glow, but forgot on that fire which he should have opened on the enemy.

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,

The second party was directly opposed to the first; one extreme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other.

Government authority, even if it does suppress private violence, always introduces into the life of men fresh forms of violence, which tend to become greater and greater in proportion to the duration and strength of the government.