The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.