Die Haupteigenschaften, die ihm diese allgemeine Achtung im Amt eingebracht hatten, bestanden erstens in seinem überaus nachsichtigen Verhalten, das auf dem Bewusstsein seiner eigenen Unzulänglichkeit beruhte, zweitens seiner durch und durch liberalen Einstellung - nicht jener, die er aus den Zeitungen geschöpft hatte, sondern derjenigen, die ihm im Blute lag und auf Grund derer er jedermann, unabhängig von Stand und Vermögen, völlig gleichmäßig behandelte, und drittens - das war die Hauptsache - in dem völligen Gleichmut, mit dem er sein Amt versah, sodass er stets die Ruhe bewahrte und sich niemals zu unbedachten Handlungen hinreißen ließ.
Leo TolstoyAnd where love ends, hate begins
Leo TolstoyThe enemy stopped shooting, and that strict, menacing, inaccessible, and elusive line that separates two enemy armies became all the more clearly felt. “One step beyond that line, reminiscent of the line separating the living from the dead, and it’s the unknown, suffering, and death. And what is there? who is there? there, beyond this field, and the tree, and the roof lit by the sun? No one knows, and you would like to know; and you’re afraid to cross that line, and would like to cross it; and you know that sooner or later you will have to cross it and find out what is there on the other side of the line, as you will inevitably find out what is there on the other side of death. And you’re strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and surrounded by people just as strong and excitedly animated.” So, if he does not think it, every man feels who finds himself within sight of an enemy, and this feeling gives a particular brilliance and joyful sharpness of impression to everything that happens in those moments.
Leo TolstoyTags: war-and-peace
Rostov was not listening to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes dancing above the fire and remembered the Russian winter with a warm, bright house, a fluffy fur coat, swift sleighs, a healthy body, and all the love and care of a family. “And why did I come here?” he wondered.
Leo TolstoyEvery reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.
Leo TolstoyI have lived through much and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet, secluded life in the country with possibility of being useful to people.
Leo TolstoyA desire of desires: the melancholy.
Leo TolstoyWell, what is that to me? I can't see her!" she cried.
Leo TolstoyVronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg.
Leo TolstoyThe wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote
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