Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.
Leo TolstoyDeath is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.
Leo TolstoyBy digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich
Leo TolstoyTrue art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.
Leo Tolstoy