Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning."
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"In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live"
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"How can it be that I’ve never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It’s all vanity, it’s all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing – that’s all there is. But there isn’t even that. There’s nothing but stillness and peace. Thank God for that!"
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Dumnezeu este doar unul şi acelaşi pretutindeni."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"God is the same everywhere."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Life did not stop, and one had to live."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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