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It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

Then the doctor, a young man, not quite a Nihilist perhaps, but you know, eats with his knife...but a very good doctor.

He used to say that there were only two sources of human vice: idleness and superstition; and that there were only two virtues: activity and intelligence.

Ambition, love of power, covetousness, lasciviousness, pride, anger, and revenge—were all respected.

It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer needed.

The smoke from the gun was white as milk over the green of the grass.

I have the honor to report, sir, that only eight rounds are left. Are we to continue firing?" he asked.

Is he aiming at doing anything, or simply undoing what's been done? It's the great misfortune of our government—this paper administration, of which he's a worthy representative.

when he was officiating in a depressed state of mind he felt that the influence produced on him by the service would endure. And it did in fact weaken till only the habit remained.

E, abrigando os olhos com a mão, consultou o sol.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart.

No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished.

These people are the most fundamental unbelievers, because if faith for them is a means of attaining some worldly goals, then that is certainly not faith.

Both the countess and Sonya understood that, naturally, neither Moscow, nor the burning of Moscow, nor anything else, could seem of importance to Natasha.

Only looking up at the sky did Pierre cease to feel how sordid and humiliating were all mundane things compared with the heights to which his soul had just been raised.

One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification.

Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile.

This famous Prussian neutrality is nothing but a trap.

The doctor declared that his physical sufferings were terrible, and he was right; but more horrible even than his physical sufferings were his moral sufferings, his greatest torment.

Alphonse Karr said a capital thing before the war with Prussia: 'You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Only a man devoid of the sense of measure and of taste could produce such types as "Titus Andronicus" or "Troilus and Cressida,

I think ... if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Schrodinger, for one, rejected it vehemently, regretting having devised the equation that gave rise to it.