it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
Leo TolstoyMots clés good deeds anna-karenina leo-tolstoy
The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.
Leo TolstoyMots clés day tolstoy labor lord anna-karenina rewards
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
Leo TolstoyMots clés work capitalism labor honest anna-karenina leo-tolstoy hierarchy dishonest
The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.
Leo TolstoyMots clés work labor banks anna-karenina leo-tolstoy monopolies earnings profits railways
I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
Leo TolstoyMots clés love tolstoy anna-karenina
In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary is a violation of this law - as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together and both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other only earns two thousand , or when lawyers and hussars, possessing no special qualifications, are appointed directors of banks with huge salaries - I can only conclude that their salaries are not fixed according to the law of supply and demand but simply by personal influence. And this is an abuse important in itself and having a deleterious effect on government service.
Leo TolstoyMots clés economics government tolstoy anna-karenina salaries supply-and-demand
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
Leo TolstoyMots clés stupidity pride intellect tolstoy dishonesty anna-karenina trickery
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
Leo TolstoyMots clés love sun admiration tolstoy flattery anna-karenina gaze avoiding stare
Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.
Leo TolstoyMots clés relationships anna-karenina contempt
He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
Leo TolstoyMots clés love anna-karenina leo-tolstoy
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