
The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy

"What dwells in man I already knew. Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.
Leo Tolstoy • The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
Ah, lad! It's you that don't see; malice blinds you. Others' sins are before your eyes, but your own are behind your back. "He's acted badly!" What a thing to say! If he were the only one to act badly, how could strife exist? Is strife among men ever bred by one alone? Strife is always between two.
Leo Tolstoy • The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
And God said: 'Go-take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou has learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.'
Leo Tolstoy • The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
'Learn what dwells in man.' And I understood that in man dwells Love!
Leo Tolstoy • The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
At first, in the bustle of building and settling down, Pahom was pleased with it all, but when he got used to it he began to think that even here he had not enough land.
Leo Tolstoy • The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
'You can only improve life in yourself by destroying the barriers that divide your life from that of others, and by considering others as yourself, and loving them. By so doing you increase your share of life. You injure your life when you think of it as the only life, and try to add to its welfare at the expense of other lives. By so doing you onl
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But though Efím lay down, he could not sleep. He could not get Elisha out of his mind, but remembered how he had seen him three times at Jerusalem, standing in the foremost place. 'So that is how he got ahead of me,' thought Efím. 'God may or may not have accepted my pilgrimage but He has certainly accepted his!'
Leo Tolstoy • The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
Remember then: there is only one time that is important- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
Leo Tolstoy • The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
"We may live roughly, but at least we are free from anxiety. You live in better style than we do, but though you often earn more than you need, you are very likely to lose all you have. You know the proverb, 'Loss and gain are brothers twain.'