Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no mean...
My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died painfully, not understanding why he had lived and still less why he had to die. No...
Love those you hate you.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
He was always in a hurry to get where he was not.
He felt that now over his every word, his every deed, there was a judge, a judgment, which was dearer to him than the judgments of all the people in the world. He spoke now, and along with his words h...
He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.
God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...
Every heart has its own skeletons.
Enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in finding it
If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh.
We are shocked by thieves taking pride in their clever touch, prostitutes in their depravity and murderers in their callousness. But it is shocking only because the atmosphere of the circles they move...
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
As long as there is life, there is still happiness
What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!
To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of...
They talked about peace, but did not believe in its possibility.