If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have som...
I must ask what it is you want of me?What can I want? All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing, she said, understanding all he had not uttered. But that I don't want; tha...
I have learned that men live not by selfishness, but by love.
I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?
I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something...
How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
Higher and higher receded the sky, wider and wider spread the streak of dawn, whiter grew the pallid silver of the dew, more lifeless the sickle of the moon...
Her glance, the touch of her hand, set him aflame. He kissed the palm of his hand where she had touched it, and went home, happy in the sense that he had got nearer to the attainment of his aims that...
He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...
He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly
Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.
Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.
Enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in finding it
Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.
Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between...
Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.
But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affecte...
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in lo...
Book is a nice companion