"War and Peace" Quotes
The lives of five aristocratic families are intertwined with the historical events of Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
classics | 1392 pages | Published in 1967
Quotes
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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...
The only thing is to do something good, and then to wish that it were not a sin.
Without knowing why, she felt that she could not have let him go, but that had he stayed there would have been nothing for him to do.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
