Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), full name Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy was a Count. He was a novelist, social reformer, and religious mystic, born in Tula, of a noble family. He served for a time in the army, soon retired from it, and travelled. He married, and settled on his estate near Moscow in 1862. His two great works are "War and Peace" (1865-68) and "Anna Karenina" (1875-78). He wrote many works since, all more or less in a religious vein, and in the keenest, deepest sympathy with the soul-oppression of the world, finding the secret of Christianity to lie in the precept of Christ, "Resist not evil," and exemplifying that as the principle of his own life.Wisdom & Quotes
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
- Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
- All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
- The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.
- In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.
Charles Dudley Warner