A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early i...
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produ...
How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the earth, a little grain of sand in comparison with Siriu...
Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive, thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. And I don't get on with other peopl...
It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man,to forget what you've said, as I forget it, she said at last.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!
This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.
She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as...
Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back on that sadness of mine, seeing that always in it was an element of self-love - now a des...
It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and the quiet self-satisfaction of the perpetrators of this evil were the consequences of men trying to do...
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective,
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!
All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.
Yes, I suppose so, answered Anna, as though wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire as she said it.
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. I...
Hay ... tantas clases de amor como corazones