War and Peace

"Knowledge without wisdom is merely the accumulation of facts"

"True courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it"

"Love is life's greatest blessing and most profound mystery"

"In war, circumstances change so rapidly that it is impossible to make a plan"

"The better the life a man has lived, the less he fears death"

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains of his own making"

"Leadership is the willingness to serve"

"It is easier to be dead than to live"

"Man cannot live by bread alone, but by meaning"

"Duty is what matters most in life"

"All that matters is the force of the will"

"The greatest thing is a man's conscience"

"In life there is nothing more precious than living through"

"Everything comes in time to those who wait"

"Family is the true unit of life."

"A life without love is like a year without summer."

"Courage is the greatest quality of a soldier."

"What is this power? It must be justice."

"One must be a creator to understand creation."

"Suffer and bear it—this is the best way to peace."

"True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."

"The patriotic feeling of the whole nation has now manifested itself."

"Life has to be lived—that is all there is to it."

"The absence of sensation is not the presence of peace."

"I love life despite all the sufferings."

"The whole secret of the existence of man is that he should find something to do."

"To love is to sacrifice everything."

"We Russians must either perish or make Europe know the meaning of Russian valor."

"A man is born, but to become a man he must be remade."

"Nothing is more precious than peace."