"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six." ― Leo Tolstoy Topic(s): Great More From Leo Tolstoy "True life is lived when tiny changes occur." "The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded." "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." More In Great "There is a woman at the begining of all great things."― Alphonse de Lamartine "I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic."― Winston Churchill "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld