War and Peace Quotes

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What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to ta...

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He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.

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Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even given him the reputation of a brave man - and there was something in it that he was unable to understand. "So they're even mor...

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the wh...

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War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.

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

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Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures.

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Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of hi...

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In historical events great men - so-called - are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connexion with the event itself.

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There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for hi...

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

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There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of ...

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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

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

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Life did not stop, and one had to live.

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