Leo Tolstoy

If there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ’s compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.

Leo Tolstoy

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

Leo Tolstoy

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.

Leo Tolstoy

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Leo Tolstoy

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

Leo Tolstoy

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

Leo Tolstoy

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

Leo Tolstoy

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Leo Tolstoy