“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
— Leo Tolstoy