Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.

“If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the ri…”

“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only…”

“„Sve je to nastalo otud“ – mislio je Nehljudov – „što svi ti ljudi – gubernator…”

“But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think …”