10 Best Quotes by Leo Tolstoy Inspiring Square

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.