Friendship Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by…

— Louis Auchincloss

“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth being ever…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Pierre’s heart thrilled to these words as he gazed with shining eyes into the mason’s face. He listened without interrupting or asking any questions,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on…

— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

“In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the child of his…

— Nahoko Uehashi

“In external ways Pierre had hardly changed at all. In appearance he was just what he used to be. As before he was absent-minded…

— Anonymous

That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility for each…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Later, he was to decide that Andrew’s life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine…

— Neal Stephenson

“Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He could not do most things, and what he could do, he did. But William had always been capable of many things. The stress…

— Paula Marantz Cohen