War and Peace

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Quotes from War and Peace

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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
Pierre Bezukhov Love
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"One thing only I know for certain and that is that man's judgment of rightness or wrongness is not based on reason."
Pierre Bezukhov Truth
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"There is something in the human heart which will survive even death."
Natasha Rostova Hope
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"We are all fools in love."
Anatole Kuragin Love
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"Man is a creature who can get accustomed to anything!"
Pierre Bezukhov Strength
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"Leadership is not about having power, but about serving others."
General Kutuzov Leadership
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"One must have faith in oneself, I tell you."
Natasha Rostova Courage
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"War is not courtesy but the most dreadful thing in life."
General Kutuzov War
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"The bed of a great river must contain the water."
General Kutuzov Wisdom
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"God is not outside of us, but within us."
Pierre Bezukhov Faith
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
Pierre Bezukhov Love
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"For us, with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, there is nothing for which there is no hope."
Pierre Bezukhov Faith
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"We Russians should never have taken up arms for the Polish question."
General Kutuzov Politics
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"A man is always a slave. Either he is a slave to God, or a slave to himself."
Pierre Bezukhov Freedom
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"The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
Pierre Bezukhov Wisdom
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"We cannot change what we have done, but we can change what we will do"
Pierre Bezukhov Change
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"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky Solitude
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"Relationships require trust and honesty."
Natasha Rostova Relationships
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"Money cannot buy happiness."
Pierre Bezukhov Money
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"Patience is a virtue."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky Patience
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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
General Kutuzov Perseverance
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"All dreams are made of small, significant moments strung together."
Natasha Rostova Dreams
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"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."
Pierre Bezukhov Change
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase."
Platon Karataev Faith
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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back."
Natasha Rostova Love
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Pierre Bezukhov Freedom
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky Courage
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"Love is life itself."
Natasha Rostova Love
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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy."
Platon Karataev Happiness
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"Death is the end of life and nothing more."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky Death