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