Quotes by Tolstoy, Count Leo

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most pene >>

I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor. >>

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, >>

Quotations about Greatness

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or t >>

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On >>

I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deep >>

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

Tolstoy, Count Leo