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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

1900

★ 2.0

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Keep your clothes neat and tidy; it gives you self-confidence and composure in your bearings.

1854

★ 2.1

All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.

1871

★ 2.1

There can be only one permanent revolution-a moral one.

1900

★ 2.1

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 2.2

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone about him.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.3

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.4

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.4

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.4

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor-such is my idea of happiness.

1859

★ 3.7

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

1897

★ 3.8

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 connection with the event itself.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 3.9

By loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 4.0

The eternal error men make in imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 4.0

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 4.0

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Sevastopol in May · 1855

★ 4.5

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words-that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 5.5

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 5.6

The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 5.7

"What's this? am I falling? my legs are giving way under me," he thought, and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the French soldiers with the artilleryman was ending, and eager to know whether the red-haired artilleryman was killed or not, whether the cannons had been taken or saved. But he saw nothing of all that, Above him there was nothing but the sky-the lofty sky, not clear, but still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds creeping quietly over it.

War and Peace · 1869

★ 6.4

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