Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. (Leo Tolstoy)

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy)

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Leo Tolstoy)

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. (Leo Tolstoy)

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. (Leo Tolstoy)

Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless. (Leo Tolstoy)

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. (Leo Tolstoy)

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. (Leo Tolstoy)

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy)

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. (Leo Tolstoy)