These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.