Quote #108
History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true.
More from Leo Tolstoy
- History is nothing other than a collection of fables and useless trifles messed up with a mass of unnecessary dates and proper names....Why…
- If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food…
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and …
- 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.
- If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
- A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
- If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.