War and Peace

"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." "Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women." "If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war." "The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience." "There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth." "The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..." "It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong." Like "Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy." "You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love." "If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed." "We are asleep until we fall in Love!" "I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself." "Everything I know, I know because of love." "Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. " Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace