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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist who is best known for his two epic novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He was born in 1828 into an aristocratic family and grew up on their estate in Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy served in the army during the Crimean War and later became a writer and philosopher. He was a deeply religious man who believed in non-violence and social justice. Tolstoy died in 1910 at the age of 82.

Here are some of his most famous works:

* War and Peace (1869)
* Anna Karenina (1878)
* The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
* Resurrection (1899)
* The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894)
* A Confession (1882)

Tolstoy is considered one of the greatest novelists of all time and his works have been translated into many languages. He is also a major figure in the history of philosophy and his ideas have had a profound influence on many people.

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.

Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

Leo Tolstoy

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Leo Tolstoy

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."

Leo Tolstoy

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Leo Tolstoy

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

Leo Tolstoy

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

Leo Tolstoy

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

Leo Tolstoy

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Leo Tolstoy

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

Leo Tolstoy

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Leo Tolstoy

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...

Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

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