The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
More Quotes from Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy:
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible ... and to serve others as much as possible.Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so but there was no real life in me.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonalthat there is no human relationship between master and slave.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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