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
Excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous
[...most men do not try] to recognize the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.
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...
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 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...
We will never arrive to the notion of total freedom, that is, the absence of cause
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.
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...
War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of it... as it stands now it's the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous.
Toda la diversidad, la hermosura, el encanto de la vida, se componen de luces y sombras.
Like the majority of irreproachably virtuous women, wearying often of the monotony of a virtuous life, Dolly from a distance excused illicit love, and even envied it a little.
Konstantin Levin did not like talking or hearing about the beauty of nature. For him words took away the beauty of what he saw.
It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to.
In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that it must exist somewhere and had been seeking it. In everything near and comprehensib...