“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy livro A Sonata a Kreutzer
Variante: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Fonte: The Kreutzer Sonata
Liev Tolstói: Frases em inglês
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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Anna Karenina
(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Fonte: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Fonte: 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.
Disputed
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
Leo Tolstoy livro Anna Karenina
Fonte: Anna Karenina
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Guerra e Paz
Fonte: War and Peace
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Anna Karenina
Fonte: Anna Karenina
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
Leo Tolstoy livro Anna Karenina
Fonte: Anna Karenina
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy livro A Confession
Fonte: A Confession
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Guerra e Paz
Fonte: War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy livro Anna Karenina
Variante: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Fonte: Anna Karenina
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Guerra e Paz
Bk. X, ch. 16
Fonte: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)