Léon Tolstoï citations célèbres
“Il ne faut jamais rien outrer.”
Anna Karenina
Variante: Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo
Citations sur les hommes et les garçons de Léon Tolstoï
Виконт был миловидный, с мягкими чертами и приемами, молодой человек, очевидно считавший себя знаменитостью, но, по благовоспитанности, скромно предоставлявший пользоваться собой тому обществу, в котором он находился. Анна Павловна, очевидно, угощала им своих гостей. Как хороший метрд`отель подает как нечто сверхъестественно-прекрасное тот кусок говядины, который есть не захочется, если увидать его в грязной кухне, так в нынешний вечер Анна Павловна сервировала своим гостям сначала виконта, потом аббата, как что-то сверхъестественно утонченное. [...] виконт был подан обществу в самом изящном и выгодном для него свете, как ростбиф на горячем блюде, посыпанный зеленью.
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Guerre et Paix, 1865 - 1869
Léon Tolstoï Citations
“Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner.”
War and Peace
Variante: Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.
La Guerre et la Paix - Tome II
La Guerre et la Paix - Tome III
“les opinions lui étaient aussi nécessaires que les chapeaux.”
Anna Karenine
La guerre et la paix, Tome II
La guerre et la paix, Tome II
“frais comme un grand concombre hollandais, vert et luisant.”
Anna Karenine
Les Cosasques, 1863
Léon Tolstoï: Citations en anglais
Source: The Slavery of Our Times (1890), Chapter 8: Slavery Exists Among Us
The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)
The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)
What then must we do? (1886)
Source: What is Religion, of What does its Essence Consist? (1902), Chapter 11
Preface
The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)
Help for the Starving, Pt. III (January 1892)
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 209
Source: What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XII
Contexte: And the angel's body was bared, and he was clothed in light so that eye could not look on him; and his voice grew louder, as though it came not from him but from heaven above. And the angel said:
I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves, but by love.
It was not given to the mother to know what her children needed for their life. Nor was it given to the rich man to know what he himself needed. Nor is it given to any man to know whether, when evening comes, he will need boots for his body or slippers for his corpse.
I remained alive when I was a man, not by care of myself, but because love was present in a passer-by, and because he and his wife pitied and loved me. The orphans remained alive, not because of their mother's care, but because there was love in the heart of a woman a stranger to them, who pitied and loved them. And all men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man.
I knew before that God gave life to men and desires that they should live; now I understood more than that.
I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, and therefore he does not reveal to them what each one needs for himself; but he wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals to each of them what is necessary for all.
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Source: The Slavery of Our Times (1890), Chapter 8: Slavery Exists Among Us
The establishing of a fact.
Pt. IV, ch. 4
Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)
What then must we do? (1886)
"To the Working People," Complete Works, trans. Leo Wiener, Vol 24, p. 129 (1905)
"Three Methods Of Reform" in Pamphlets : Translated from the Russian (1900) as translated by Aylmer Maude, p. 29
As quoted in The Artist's Way at Work : Riding the Dragon (1999) by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160
Variante: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
What then must we do? (1886)
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay.”
Epigraph
Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)