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
What is Art? (1897)
As quoted in Tolstoy (1988) by A. N. Wilson, p. 146
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 81
Variant translation: The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.
Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Ch. 12
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Variante: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
Source: Anna Karenina
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Variante: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Source: Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“If you want to be happy, be.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 352; this statement appears in late 20th century inspirational books, but with no known citation to original material by Tolstoy.
Disputed
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
Source: Anna Karenina
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
Source: War and Peace
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Source: Anna Karenina
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
Source: Anna Karenina
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Source: A Confession
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
Source: War and Peace
Variante: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Source: Anna Karenina
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
Bk. X, ch. 16
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)