Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is read more

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on read more

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding

Conceit is incompatible with understanding

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife