Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Enjoy our collection of quotes by famous people like Leo Tolstoy, born on September 9, 1828 and died on November 20, 1910. He was a Russian writer whom many consider to be the world's greatest novelist. His literary masterpieces included War and Peace, and Anna Karenina. These novels represent breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.

The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings he has worked through, and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.
Leo Tolstoy

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
Leo Tolstoy

Faith is the force of life.
Leo Tolstoy

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.
Leo Tolstoy

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies, to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
Leo Tolstoy






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