“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy libro The Kreutzer Sonata
Variante: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Fuente: The Kreutzer Sonata
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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy libro Ana Karenina
(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Fuente: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Fuente: Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“If you want to be happy, be.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 352; this statement appears in late 20th century inspirational books, but with no known citation to original material by Tolstoy.
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“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
Leo Tolstoy libro Ana Karenina
Fuente: Anna Karenina
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra y paz
Fuente: War and Peace
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Leo Tolstoy libro Ana Karenina
Fuente: Anna Karenina
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
Leo Tolstoy libro Ana Karenina
Fuente: Anna Karenina
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy libro A Confession
Fuente: A Confession
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra y paz
Fuente: War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy libro Ana Karenina
Variante: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Fuente: Anna Karenina
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra y paz
Bk. X, ch. 16
Fuente: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)