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Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), was a Russian writer, novelist, fictionist, and philosopher.
利奥·托尔斯泰 (1828年—1910年)俄国作家、小说家、散文作家、和哲学家。 

1254. It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
中文 / Chinese:  做好事的方式以没有任何人知道为最好。
1255. They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
中文 / Chinese:  他们不知道什麽是快乐,他们不知道没有爱就没有快乐或不快乐 — 没有生命。
1256. You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
中文 / Chinese:  你可以用情人的爱爱一个心爱的人,但爱一个敌人只可用神圣的爱。
1257. I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
中文 / Chinese:  我时常想男人不明白什麽是高贵和什麽是无知,然而他们总是讨论著它。
1258. The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...
中文 / Chinese:  对我来说,整个世界分成两部分:一是她,那是所有快乐,希望,光明;另外一部分不是她,那是沮丧和黑暗...
1259. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
中文 / Chinese:  构成一个快乐的婚姻不是你有多能协调,而是你怎样处理不协调性。
1260. If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
中文 / Chinese:  如果我们容许理性管治人,那样生命所有的可能性都被摧毁。
1208. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
中文 / Chinese:  一个人可以生活和健康而不用杀动物来做食物;因此,如果他食肉,他参与夺取动物的生命只不过为了满足他的胃口。而这行为是不道德的。
1209. If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
中文 / Chinese:  假如每一个人为自己的信念而争取,那就没有战争了。
1210. Boredom: the desire for desires.
中文 / Chinese:  枯燥:渴望慾望。
1211. Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
中文 / Chinese:  有时她不知道她害怕什麽,她渴望什麽:不管是她害怕还是渴望已发生或将发生,及明确地她曾经渴望过,她不知道。
1212. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
中文 / Chinese:  快乐不依赖外间事物,但视乎我们怎样看它。
1213. There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
中文 / Chinese:  没有简单,善良和真理,就没有伟大。
1214. All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
中文 / Chinese:  所有优秀的文学作品都是两个故事其中一个:一个人踏上旅程或一个陌生人来到镇上。
1104. In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
中文 / Chinese:  以上帝之名,停一刻,终止工作,看看周围。
1105. Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
中文 / Chinese:  年青人最需要一个有智识的女人作伴。
1106. When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
中文 / Chinese:  当你爱某人,你爱这人本身,而不是你心目中所想的要。
1107. Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
中文 / Chinese:  翻查我们的灵魂,我们时常掘出些事情躺在那里而没有为意。
1108. Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
中文 / Chinese:  做坏人,但最少不要做个说谎的人,欺骗者。
1109. Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
中文 / Chinese:  爱情。我不喜欢那字是因为它对我太有意义,远于你能够明白。
1110. Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
中文 / Chinese:  错不会停止错因为大多数份额在里面。
1111. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
中文 / Chinese:  所有变化,所有魅力,所有生命的美是由光与影组成。
1019. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
中文 / Chinese:  “美丽是善良”,令人惊讶的是错觉可以那麽完全。
1020. I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
中文 / Chinese:  我想...如果有多少个头就有多少份思想,那样有多少个心就有多少份爱。
1021. Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
中文 / Chinese:  尊重是发明来填补本来给爱空著的位置。
1022. Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
中文 / Chinese:  只有那些能够强烈地爱的人亦能够遭受巨大的悲痛,然而这爱的需要可抵消他们的悲伤和治癒它。
1023. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
中文 / Chinese:  我们只能知道什麽也不知道。那是最高程度的人类智慧。

1024. If you want to be happy, be.
中文 / Chinese:  如果你想快乐,快乐吧。
1025. Spring is the time of plans and projects.
中文 / Chinese:  春天是策划和企划的时候。
1026. Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
中文 / Chinese:  告诉别人一个人的感觉真的可能吗?
911. In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself.
中文 / Chinese:  在我们的世界里每人都想改变人性,但没有人想过改变自己。
912. Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
中文 / Chinese:  一个人只要有耐性每件事总会成功。
913. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
中文 / Chinese:  所有快乐的家庭都很相似,每一个不快乐的家庭却有它的区别。
914. Great things are always simple and modest.
中文 / Chinese:  伟大的事情总是简单和适中的。
915. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
中文 / Chinese:  最强的两个战士是耐心和时间。
916. We always think that they love us because we are good, but we never suspect that good are those who love us.
中文 / Chinese:  我们总是想他们爱我们是因为我们好,但我们从未怀疑过是他们好才爱我们。
917. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
中文 / Chinese:  爱是人生。一切,我明白的每件事,我明白只因为我爱。
918. One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
中文 / Chinese:  快乐的首个条件是人与大自然的连结不可以打断。
919. The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
中文 / Chinese:  每一男人和女人的天职都是服务别人。