Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to thy loving kindness.
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
False. Everything by which you have lived and live now is all a deception, a lie, concealing both life and death from you.
False faith is the major cause of most of our misfortunes. The purpose of a human life is to bring the irrational beginning of our life to a rational beginning. In order to succeed in this, two things...
Faith is neither hope nor trust, but a particular spiritual state. Faith is man’s awareness that his position in the world obliges him to perform certain actions. A person acts according to his faith,...
Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence.
En la vida sólo hay dos verdaderas desgracias: el remordimiento de conciencia y la enfermedad. Y la felicidad es sólamente la ausencia de estos dos males.
During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man'...
Drops Dripped. Quiet talk went on. Horses neighed and scuffled. Someone snored.
Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike you, so much the better. —LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!
But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink -- he recovered.
At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floa...
As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister, the sisters after their tears talked, not of what was uppermo...
And there in the middle, high above Prechistensky Boulevard, amidst a scattering of stars on every side but catching the eye through its closeness to the earth, its pure white light and the long uplif...
And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.
Although on a conscious level a man lives for himself, he is actually being used for the attainment of humanity's historical aims. A deed once done becomes irrevocable, and any action comes together o...
All were happy -- plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people -- adult men and women -- never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning w...
كانت آنا اركادييفنا تقرأ وتفهم، لكنها لم تكن تجد متعة في تتبع مغامرات الآخرين. كانت ترغب رغبه عارمة في أن تعيش بذاتها
إن المرأه هي حجر العثرة الأساسي في طريق الرجل . ومن الصعب أن يحب الرجل امرأه وأن يفعل شيئا . هناك وسيلة وحيدة لمعرفة متع الحب دون ان يصبح الحب عائقا هي الزواج