Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир Quotes
Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.
Seize the moments of happiness, Love and be Loved!That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly!
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...
God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...
It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.
Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.
Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy
Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.
Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.
Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.
I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.
In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.
We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.
The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.
Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.
I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him
Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have".
-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!
Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.
In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.
The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if all that was good in me had hidden itself, and only what is horrid remains.
Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts, , actions! They are all but grains of sand
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.
Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it
Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.
The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots.
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.
When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.
