She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

In historical events great men – so-called – are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connexion with the event itself.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it...

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

Fate acts with reason. And we are always passing judgment; that’s not right, and this doesn’t suit us. Our happiness, my dear, is like water in a drag-net; you drag, and it is all puffed...

no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine — not a disease...

It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Why nowadays there’s a new fashion every day.

If you love me as you say you do,’ she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.

And where love ends, hate begins

Dumnezeu este doar unul şi acelaşi pretutindeni.

But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not...

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don’t grieve over what i don’t have”.

Himmlisch ist’s wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn’s nich gelungen Hatt’ ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!Loosely translated:It is heavenly, when I overcomeMy earthly desiresBut nevertheless, when I’m not successful,It can also be...

The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.

But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second month, come to loathe the sight of each...

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of...

Con los ojos fijos en Napoleón pensaba en la insignificancia de la grandeza, en la insignificancia de la vida cuyo objeto nadie comprendía, en la insignificancia mayor aún de la muerte cuyo sentido permanecía oculto...

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....

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

In time, things fall its places for a man who know how to wait

At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary for the good of mankind. Thousands of...

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Nice passion is reading

I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.

Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures.

At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means...

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person?...

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only...

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre’s part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there...

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.