Book: War and peace. Page 5

- ... Are you satisfied with yourself and your life?
- No, I hate my life, skordas, said Pierre.
- You hate it then change it...

Despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled and gave medicine to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

... Sometimes Pierre remembered hearing the story about how in war soldiers while under fire in the trenches, when they do nothing, diligently seek to do in order to bear the danger. And Pierre all men seemed such soldiers fleeing from life: someone with ambition, who cards who are writing the laws, who women who toys, who are the horses who policy, who is hunting who wine, who is public Affairs...

People always err and will err, and in nothing more than in what they consider fair and unfair.

Who all understand that everything is and will forgive.

Seize the moments of happiness, force yourself to love love yourself! Only this one is real in the world, all else is folly!

To be thus boldly provocatively happy.

And I said, basements hand in hand with those who love good, and let there be one banner - active virtue...
I just want to say that all the thoughts that have huge consequences are always simple. My whole idea is that if vicious people are connected to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same. It is as simple as.

The military caste the most honorable. And what war is, what it takes to succeed in the military, what are the morals of military society? The aim of war is murder, weapons of war, spying, treason and the encouragement of it, the ruin of the inhabitants, robbing them or stealing for food of the army; deception and lying are called military stratagems; the morals of the military class - absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, drunkenness. And despite the fact is the highest class, respected by everyone. All the kings, except the Chinese, wear military uniform, and the one who killed more people, give more rewards...

The last time I became difficult to live. I see, I began to understand too much.

One of the brothers of the masons, after the accession of Napoleon to Russia, said Pierre, what in the Apocalypse it is said: the coming "beast in human form and his number is 666, and the limit he put the number 42". If all the French letters in alphabetical order denoted by the numbers (from 1 to 10, and then tens - 20; 30; 40, etc.), then, writing in French, "the Emperor Napoleon", substituting letters for the figures and fold them, you get 666. If you write in French as "forty-two" and add up the total numbers, replacing their letters, too, we get 666. In 1812 Napoleon turned 42 it turns out that the Antichrist is Napoleon, and the end will come on him in 1812. Thinking, Pierre tried to calculate sum of numbers in its own name, but did not receive 666. Through a long fit he succeeded Pierre wrote in French "Russian Bezuhov" violation of grammar framed the article and got the desired result.

No, life is not over at age 31, suddenly, finally, invariably decided Prince Andrew. Not only do I know everything that's in me, it is necessary that all know it: Pierre, and that girl who wanted to fly away, you have to know me for me my life was taking, so as not so they lived, regardless of my life to be reflected in theirs, and that they all lived with me!

War is not courtesy but the vilest thing in life, and we need to understand that and not play at war. It should be taken strictly and seriously this terrible necessity. All of this: discard the lies, and the war as a war, not a toy.

Everything in him and around him seemed confused, senseless and disgusting. But in this very loathing of everything surrounding Pierre found a kind of irritant pleasure.