Leo Tolstoy

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

Leo Tolstoy

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

Leo Tolstoy

It’s not so much that he can’t fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

Leo Tolstoy

Kings are the slaves of history.

Leo Tolstoy

Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.

Leo Tolstoy

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Leo Tolstoy

Man’s mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man’s soul.

Leo Tolstoy

Men need only trust in Christ’s teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

Leo Tolstoy

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Leo Tolstoy

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Leo Tolstoy