Leo Tolstoy

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#christianity #good-and-evil #jesus #jesus-christ #laws

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#marriage #relationships #love

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #love #prince-andrew #tolstoy #war-and-peace

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death #philosophy #death

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

I don’t count life as life without love ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#seryozha #vronsky #life

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#love #merit #morality #love

Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#respect #love