Leo Tolstoy

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly (Anna Karenina)

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear.

Big doors swing on little hinges.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.

He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Logic is like the sword