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