Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj: Frasi in inglese

Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj era scrittore, drammaturgo, filosofo, pedagogista, esegeta ed attivista sociale russo. Frasi in inglese.
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Sonata a Kreutzer

Variante: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Origine: The Kreutzer Sonata

“I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Origine: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

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Leo Tolstoy

Origine: Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

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Leo Tolstoy

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“If you want to be happy, be.”

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Leo Tolstoy

As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 352; this statement appears in late 20th century inspirational books, but with no known citation to original material by Tolstoy.
Disputed

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro A Confession

Origine: A Confession

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Variante: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Origine: Anna Karenina

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”

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Leo Tolstoy

Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Bk. X, ch. 16
Origine: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina