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“How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am near sixty, dear friend... I too... All will end in death, all! Death is awful...”
The first time Vasili talked kindly to Pierre.
“Come, I will go with you. Try to weep, nothing gives such relief as tears.”
She said the count had died as she would herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying.
“It is painful, but it does one good. It uplifts the soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,”
He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.
As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of exactitude.
The princess was as untidy as her father was tidy.
How terrible and frightful a thing is separation!
All Moscow talks of nothing but war.
To say nothing of my brothers, this war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart.
Speaking of Nicholas Rostov
I know very well that Count Nicholas is too young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed.
embrace you as I love you.
who am deprived of all who are dear to me? Ah, if we had not religion to console us life would be very sad.
I cannot agree with you about Pierre, whom I knew as a child. He always seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value most in people.
If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be poorer than the poorest beggar.
It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.
“Everyone has his Achilles’ heel,”
Did he fear going to the war, or was he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps
“She is quite a child: such a dear, merry child. I have grown so fond of her.”
siblings talk of in-laws
We should enter into everyone’s situation.
To understand all is to forgive all.
Mary to her brother Andrew about his lise
As Sterne says: ‘We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.’
Everything was in good order except the boots.
“We all have our weaknesses,”
