Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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

Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Leo Tolstoy

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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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.

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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

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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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