Leo Tolstoy Quotes

“God gave the day, God gave the strength. And the day and the strength were consecrated to labor, and that labor was its own reward.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:God strength work

“Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen, and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:fear desire

“Every heart has its own skeletons”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:heart

“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:understanding evil

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already,...”

― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

topic:understanding

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:beauty

“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:nature living body

“Aren't we all flung into the world only to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and each other?”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:world hate

“To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:education

“the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:work

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