Leo Tolstoy
Birthday: 28 August 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]
Birth Name: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in his ancestral estate Yasnaya Polyana, South of Moscow, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in a wealthy family of Russian landed ...Show More
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Wrong doesn't become less wrong because the majority partake in it.
Wrong doesn't become less wrong because the majority partake in it.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
[on family] Happy families are all alike; every unhappy one is unhappy in its own way.
[on family] Happy families are all alike; every unhappy one is unhappy in its own way.
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, ev Show more
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. Hide
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what Show more
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. Hide
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them th Show more
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people. Hide
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
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