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