Charity is only a good deed when you give out of your own labors.

In life, in true life there can be nothing better than what exists. Wishing for that which doesn’t exist is blasphemy.

If you don’t want to suffer, live more for your soul and less for your body.

He must remain in Moscow, concealing his name, and meet Napoleon and kill him, and either perish or put an end to the misery of all Europe.

We are all children of one Father, and so it is unnatural not to love your neighbor.

He who listens to what others say about him will never be at peace.

The army, the money, the school, the religion, and the press are in the hands of the ruling classes.

The man lost in sin finds them the joy of his life. The rational man finds his joy in freeing himself from sin.

Several tens of thousands of the dead lay in various postures & various uniforms on the fields and meadows belonging to the Davydov family.

The questions began to demand replies more & more insistently; and like drops of ink falling on one place they melded into one black blot.

I see now that if I did not kill myself it was due to some dim consciousness of the invalidity of my thoughts.

True faith needs no churches.

You’ll never recognize God if you believe everything people tell you about God.

It's a sure sign all my work is worthless that not only do people not persecute me, they praise me.

"Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God." Pierre Bezukhov

Lack of land and taxes drive men into servitude, and unsatisfied increased needs entice them into these conditions and hold them there.

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If you're angry at someone, it simply means that there's something about him you don't understand.

Don't talk to others about what interests you; try to find out what interests them, and if you do, talk about that.

The more compassion there is in a person the better and happier her life is.