Quotes from Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

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

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.