Leo Tolstoy Quotes

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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 that is in other people.

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.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Until you do what you believe in, you don’t know whether you believe it or not.

Upon meeting, you’re judged by your clothes, upon parting you’re judged by your wits.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.