He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks. Leo Tolstoy poor hands All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom. Leo Tolstoy effort ignorance men The Jew – is the symbol of eternity…. He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind…. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity. Leo Tolstoy Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars. Leo Tolstoy A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth. Leo Tolstoy All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. Leo Tolstoy Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. Leo Tolstoy If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living. Leo Tolstoy Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen. Leo Tolstoy
