WORDS FROM A GREAT MIND

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, essayist & moral thinker

Born: 9 September 1828
Died: 20 November 1910
Lived in: Yasnaya Polyana, Moscow, the Caucasus & Sevastopol

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral thinker whose works include War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection. Later in life he wrote extensively on nonviolence, conscience, labour, faith, and the moral demands of ordinary life.

A LESSER-KNOWN DETAIL

At eighty-two he secretly left his estate, hoping for a simpler final life. He fell ill during the journey and died in the stationmaster’s house at the small railway station of Astapovo.

Words by Leo Tolstoy

“There is only one time that is important—Now!”

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“The most necessary man is he with whom you are.”

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“All men live not by care for themselves but by love.”

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