The famous sayings about Tolstoy are summarized as follows:

1. One-tenth of genius is inspiration, and nine-tenths is blood and sweat.

2. A person is not cute because of his beauty, but beautiful because of his cuteness.

3. The reason why I want to educate the people is just to rescue the many Pushkin, Ostrovdesky, and Lomonosov who are about to drown there. However, in every school, these people are in groups and numerous.

4. Ideals are guiding stars.

5. Heroism consists in sacrificing oneself for faith and truth.

6. Please remember that the more difficult the environment, the more perseverance and confidence are needed, and the greater the harm of slacking off.

7. All violence can make the other party submit without a struggle, but it cannot make the other party obey.

8. Ideal books are the key to wisdom.

9. Ideals are guiding lights. Without ideals, there is no firm direction, and without direction, there is no life.

10. Happiness exists in life, and life exists in labor.

11. A person is like a fraction, his actual talent is like the numerator, and his valuation of himself is like the denominator. The larger the denominator, the smaller the value of the fraction.

12. Ideals are guiding lights. Without ideals, there is no firm direction; without direction, there is no life.

13. The greatest truth is the most ordinary truth.

14. Faith can turn destructive despair into reverse.

15. History is the biography of a country and mankind.

16. Art is the transmission of emotions.

17. Reason often becomes a slave to sin and defends it.

18. Everyone knows that those who are addicted to alcohol are people who have been blamed by their conscience because they have done something wrong. Everyone can notice that people who lead an immoral life are more in need of drugs to make themselves unconscious than others; robbers or thieves, gamblers and prostitutes cannot live without narcotics.

19. Happiness lies in living for others.

20. In addition, these timid people will not understand that as soon as the ice cracks, it will collapse under their feet - this proves that there is only one way to avoid collapse when people are walking - and this is to keep walking. The ground keeps going forward.

21. When there is life, there is happiness.

22. A mind without wisdom is like a lantern without candles.

23. Love and kindness are reality and happiness, and they are the real existence and the only possible happiness in the world.

24. Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty.

25. Where there is no simplicity, kindness and truth, there can be no greatness.

26. What matters is not the quantity of knowledge, but the quality of knowledge. Some people know a lot but don’t know the most useful things.

27. All people live and act partly according to their own thoughts and partly according to the thoughts of others.

28. Avoid exaggeration and extravagance. It is better to understate than to overstate.

29. Ideal books are the key to wisdom.

30. All changes, all charm, and all beauty in life are composed of light and shadow.

31. Have life goals, lifelong goals, goals for a period of time, goals for a stage, goals for a year, goals for a month, goals for a week, goals for a day, goals for an hour Goal, one minute goal.

32. The person who defends himself reports on himself.

33. Life is not a matter of enjoyment, but a very heavy task.

34. The great misfortune of man is that he has no eyelids or eyes.

35. There is an aspect of fantasy that is better than reality; there is also an aspect of reality that is better than fantasy. Complete happiness will be the union of the former and the latter.

36. All self-interested lives are irrational and animal lives.

37. You should do more good deeds in order to be a happy person.

38. If the purpose of diet is to nourish the body, a person who eats two meals at a time may get more enjoyment, but he will not achieve his purpose because his stomach cannot digest two meals. .

39. Civilization is not built by machines but by ideas.

40. You must sweat on your brow to get your bread.

41. Remember: There is only one time that is important, and that is now! It is important because it is our time to make a difference.

42. People are too accustomed to using force to maintain order, so it is impossible to consider social organizations without repression.

43. Do your best to fulfill your obligations, and you should know how valuable you are.

44. Such people are brave if they do what they should.

45. People are not cute because they are beautiful, but they are beautiful because they are cute.

46. You must work hard to do good, but you must work harder to do evil.

47. Having no money is a sad thing, but having too much money is even sadder.

48. Being loved by others is the same happiness as loving others, and once you get it, it will last a lifetime.

49. All self-interested lives are irrational and animal lives.

50. The hour you put it aside without using it most effectively can never come back.

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Tolstoy’s influence in China:

In China, writings evaluating him appeared in 1900, and were translated and introduced in 1907 His "religious novels" ("Master and Servant" and folk tales). In 1913 and 1917, there were incomplete classical Chinese translations of "Resurrection" (translated as "Heart Prison") and "Anna Karenina" (translated as "Graceful History").

Before and after the May Fourth Movement, a large number of Tolstoy’s works were translated into Chinese. During the Anti-Japanese War, "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" translated by Guo Moruo and Zhou Yang were published respectively, as well as translations of other works. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of Tolstoy's important works have been translated and published, and many famous works have been translated into several different versions based on their original translations.