the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.
Leo TolstoyMathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!
Leo Tolstoyูฐ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one โ is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.
Leo TolstoyThe recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.
Leo TolstoyIn our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.
Leo Tolstoy