Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

"To persevere is to win"

"The soul as well as the body needs to be maintained in a state of discipline."

"How can the commanders make plans when nothing is ever known about the enemy?"

"The higher we ascend in society, the less freedom we have."

"True courage is action when you are afraid."

"We cannot change our external circumstances, but we can always change ourselves."

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

"Everything is determined, from everlasting, and every human action happens only in seeming as if of its own accord"

"I cannot abandon Russia in her time of need"

"Death is awful. It is better not to think of it"

"I am alive and I know it. But you just live"

"We are the makers of our own fortunes."

"That terrible question: what am I living for?"

"We are all fools sometimes, the difference is that clever people profit by their mistakes."

"Knowledge without action is useless."

"There is nothing so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."

"To tell the truth is a French custom"

"Death is for man a transition to a higher existence"

"Suffering and joy are equally necessary for human life"

"Love without knowledge is like a plant without roots"

"Friendship requires understanding above all else"

"Everything in life is temporary except the soul"

"I am not interested in the slightest in those questions."

"Everything is predetermined by fate."

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible."

"Death is the great equalizer."

"Friendship is the highest form of love."

"Relationships are the mirror of our souls."

"War is not courtesy but the most dreadful thing in life."

"Talent is a flame, but character is steel."