Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."

"Patience is a virtue."

"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."

"Ambition is a human quality."

"We cannot command our love or unlove."

"A life without purpose is a life half-lived."

"Love demands sacrifice."

"We are the slaves of circumstances and accident."

"Death is an awakening for those who sleep in life."

"Freedom exists only in books."

"Ambition is the enemy of peace."

"The most difficult battles are fought within ourselves."

"We deceive ourselves if we imagine that life can ever be anything but a struggle."

"A man is always a slave. If not to other men, then to circumstances."

"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing!"

"Vengeance is the cry of a heart justly wounded."

"The moment of battle is a moment of truth."

"A true leader must follow his conscience."

"Death comes to all."

"Strength is tested in adversity."

"Everything is complicated when you begin to examine it"

"The stronger man is the one who stands alone"

"Freedom cannot be given, it must be taken"

"True courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."

"The most difficult struggles are not external but internal."

"Grief must be borne alone."

"The strongest man is he who knows his weakness."

"Men are not born for defeat."

"In the depths of winter, I found there was an invincible summer within my soul."

"We are dying, and we know it, yet we live."