When Mother smiled, no matter how nice her face had been before, it became incomparably nicer and everything around seemed to brighten up as well. - Leo Tolstoy
The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened. - Leo Tolstoy
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. - Leo Tolstoy
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. - Leo Tolstoy
Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most profound sorrow can seldom expel it altogether. - Leo Tolstoy
I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time. - Leo Tolstoy
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. - Leo Tolstoy
What time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life? - Leo Tolstoy
I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in in; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old. - Leo Tolstoy
The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth is the most cruel thing man can say to another. - Leo Tolstoy
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. - Leo Tolstoy
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. - Leo Tolstoy
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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