Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

"To love without expectation of return is the highest form of love"

"Time heals not because it erases but because it changes perspective"

"We are more alike than different, united in our common humanity"

"Frailty, thy name is woman"

"We cannot escape from ourselves"

"Men are not born for defeat"

"For a man to be truly great, he must stand with truth"

"War is madness, and those who profit from it are the true enemy"

"In the face of death, all our pretense falls away"

"The greatest freedom lies in acceptance of what cannot be changed"

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but acting despite it"

"All men are equal before death and before God"

"Everything is a mystery to us, but this is not a mystery."

"What matters is not the thing itself but the meaning we give it."

"Death is the only reality we know with certainty."

"How strange and terrible is the human heart!"

"We live not by reason but by faith."

"Truth is often hidden beneath layers of convention."

"We are all instruments in a grander design."

"The greatest courage is in accepting what we cannot change."

"We must have patience with ourselves as we journey through life."

"Man is not always capable of bearing the truth."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Death is not an evil, but a necessity."

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for."

"Strength grows in the moments when you think you can't go on but you keep going anyway."

"Happiness is a mirage"

"There is something divine in parting"

"Every moment is both an ending and a beginning"

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