Leo Tolstoy

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not…

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to…

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth…

Music is the shorthand of emotion…

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle…

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way…

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a…

If you want to be happy, be…

True life is lived when tiny changes occur…

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us…

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced…

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its…

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time…

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men…

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men…