He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
Leo TolstoyWoman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
Leo TolstoyArt can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.
Leo TolstoyIt is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.
Leo Tolstoy