““This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone thinking, feeling, and seeing things each from his own point of view. This legitimate peculiarity of each individual which used to excite and irritate Pierre now became a basis of the sympathy he felt for, and the interest he took in, other people. The difference, and sometimes complete contradiction, between men's opinions and their lives, and between one man and another, pleased him and drew from him an amused and gentle smile.””
![“[Pierre] was seized by terror lest he had aready in some way bound himself to do something that was evidently wrong, and that he ought not to do. But at the very same time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty.” quote by Tolstoy, Leo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb8/tolstoy-leo-60066_beauty_pierre-was-seized-by-terror-lest-he-had_149877.jpg)
