More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life - becoming a better person.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
