Leo Tolstoy quotes

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer, regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. His works, including "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," have had a profound impact on world literature. He is remembered for his deep philosophical insights and his advocacy of nonviolent resistance. Here are 580 of his quotes:

Without love living is easy; but it's meaningless. (Leo Tolstoy)
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you. View quote
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. View quote
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Kindness has never brought shame to anyone. Kindness is the most beautiful thing in the world. View quote
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. View quote
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Music is the shorthand of emotion. View quote
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Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself. View quote
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If you want to be happy, be. View quote
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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. View quote
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. (Leo Tolstoy)
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. View quote
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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. View quote
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. View quote
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. View quote
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. View quote
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Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. View quote
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. View quote
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Spring is the time of plans and projects. View quote
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. View quote
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Leo Tolstoy)
Happiness is pleasure without regret. View quote
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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. View quote
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But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I? View quote
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. View quote
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