Лев Николаевич Толстой: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 3)

“I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”

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

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

“If you want to be happy, be.”

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

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

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”