The mere fact of the death of a near acquaintance aroused, as usual, in all who heard of it the complacent feeling that, it is he who is dead and not I.
The ruling classes have in their hands the army, money, the schools, the churches, and the press. In the schools, they kindle patriotism in the children by means of histories describing their own peop...
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.
وحد النبي محمد قبائل العرب وأنار أفكارهم وأبصارهم بمعرفة الإله الواحد هذب أخلافهم ولين طباعهم وقلوبهم وأصلح عاداتهم البربرية الهمجية وجعلهم أمة مستعدة للرقي والتقدم.
فالناس يشبهون الأنهر يجري الماء فيها جميعاً , غير أن أحدها يكون مستقيماً في مكان ما ومتعرجاً في آخر , واسعاً وضيقاً . صافي الماء وعكره , فاتراً وبارداً وهكذا شأن البشر , فهم يحملون في داخلهم بذور الفض...
اذا قرات روايات واقاصيص شديدة الاغراق في الانفلات او ذهبت الى المسرح الفرنسي وعدت وتحدثت عما شاهدته فانك ستلاقي التشجيع والاطراء وعندما تتحدث عن الحقيقة والفقر والثراء ومشكلات المزراعين لوجد سامعوك كل...
إن المرءاة قد تخدع أشد الناس دهاء وذكاء ، لكن أشد الاطفال غباء يكتشفها ويُعرض عنها، مهما أخفيت ببراعة
You're not racing? joked the officer.Mine is a harder race, Alexei Alexandrovich replied respectfully.And though the reply did not mean anything, the officer pretended that he had heard a clever phras...
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live, Levin said to himself.
When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed o...
What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love
What is the law of nature? Is it to know that my security and that of my family, all my amusements and pleasures, are purchased at the expense of misery, deprivation, and suffering to thousands of hum...
What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard to you; but when you work, if you love the w...
What do you want? What do you want? he repeated to himself. What do I want? To live and not to suffer, he answered. And again he listened with such concentrated attention that even his pain did not di...
What am I coming for? he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. You know that I have come to be where you are, he said; I can't help it.
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
We exchanged disagreeable remarks. The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was the sudden discovery of the abyss that had been dug between us.
We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them
Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence and the law which demands that everyone w...
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get...