- Change theme
Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- 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.
- The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
- The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
- The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
- There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
- To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
- True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
- Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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