He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.
Leo TolstoyThe most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
Leo TolstoyViolence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
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