Character: Pierre Bezukhov

Success never has depended and never will depend on position, nor weapons, nor even of the number; and least of all from the position.
- But why?
- From that feeling which is in me, in him, [he pointed to Timokhin] each soldier. Why we at Austerlitz lost the battle? Position? It's all rubbish! Nothing! There is no need was there to fight: as soon as possible wanted to leave the field of battle. What we will have tomorrow? To me, it is this: one hundred, one hundred Russian and French armies met to fight, and the fact that these two hundred thousand fighting and who will fight the hardest and spare themselves the least will, he wins. Tomorrow, whatever it is, we shall win the battle!

I saw in the same order, he, Bolkonsky, he is. Do you think he will forgive me someday? He will not have against me? What do you think? What do you think?
- I think He has nothing to forgive...

If you have a spark of conscience... amuse yourself with women like my wife - with these your right, they know what you want from them. They are armed against you by the same experience of debauchery; but to promise a girl to marry her... to deceive, to steal... How can you not understand that this is as despicable as killing an old man or a child!

You can't help but finally understand that besides your pleasure there is happiness, the tranquility of others that you are ruining a whole life that you want to have fun.

"No," he said, more and more obsesses, Napoleon is great because he is above the revolution, suppressed its abuses, preserving all that is good and the equality of citizens and freedom of speech and press, and only because I got the power.

- It is unfair that there is harm to another man, said Pierre, feeling with pleasure that for the first time since his arrival Prince Andrew was revived and started to talk and wanted to Express everything that made him the way he was now.
- Who told you what is bad for another man? he asked.
Evil? Evil? said Pierre. - We all know what is evil.
- Yes, we know, but the evil that I know for myself, I can't make another person more and more perking up, said Prince Andrew, apparently wanting to Express to Pierre his new view of things. He spoke in French. - Je ne connais dans la vie que maux réels bien: C'est le remord et la maladie. Il n'est de bien que l absence de ces maux. To live for myself avoiding those two evils, that's my whole philosophy now.
- And the love of neighbor, and sacrifice? 'said Pierre. - No, I don't agree! To live only so as not to do evil, not to confess, this is not enough. I lived, I lived for myself and ruined my life. And only now, when I live, at least I try (out of modesty recovered Pierre) to live for others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. No, I don't agree with you, and you don't think what you're talking about. - Prince Andrew looked silently at Pierre and smiled mockingly.

They say that suffering is a misfortune. But if you asked me, I would choose to live as he lived before the captivity or would have passed him again, I would say: "for God's sake, I'm ready to relive the captive." When our lives go off course, we think all is lost. But this is just the beginning of something new, the best. While there is life, there is happiness. And lots and lots of happiness ahead...

Nothing can not own a person is afraid of death. And who is not afraid of it, owns everything.

But still I want to assure you that you are the most beautiful creature in the world.

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

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.

We must live, we must love, we must believe.

We can know only that we know nothing. And it is the highest degree of human wisdom.

What was that? he asked himself. - I killed her lover, Yes, killed my wife's lover. Yes, it was. Why? How did I get here? - Because you married her, answered an inner voice.