“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy könyv The Kreutzer Sonata
Változat: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Forrás: The Kreutzer Sonata
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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy könyv Anna Karenina
(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Forrás: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Forrás: 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?”
Leo Tolstoy könyv Anna Karenina
Forrás: Anna Karenina
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
Leo Tolstoy könyv War and Peace
Forrás: War and Peace
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Leo Tolstoy könyv Anna Karenina
Forrás: Anna Karenina
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
Leo Tolstoy könyv Anna Karenina
Forrás: Anna Karenina
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy könyv A Confession
Forrás: A Confession
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
Leo Tolstoy könyv War and Peace
Forrás: War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy könyv Anna Karenina
Változat: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Forrás: Anna Karenina
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
Leo Tolstoy könyv War and Peace
Bk. X, ch. 16
Forrás: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)