Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.