Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me! thought Pierre. And all this they've caught and put in...
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.
One man may not kill. If he kills a fellow-creature, he is a murderer. If two, ten, a hundred men do so, they, too, are murderers. But a government or a nation may kill as many men as it chooses, and...
My life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my...
Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life
Love those you hate you.
Life and death are in God's hands
Kitty got up to fetch a table, and, as she passed, her eyes met Levin's. She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for a suffering of which she was herself the cause....
Kings are the slaves of history.
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.
It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession as evil, is ashamed of it. But the contrary is true. People whom fate and their sin-mistakes have pla...
Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
I saw that all who do not profess an identical faith with themselves are considered by the Orthodox to be heretics, just as the Catholics and others consider the Orthodox to be heretics. And i saw tha...
I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world the...
I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me
He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies fil...