“To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.”

— Leo Tolstoy, The First Step (1892), Ch. 7 (translation by Aylmer Maude)

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About Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.

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