Leo Tolstoy

this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world one has to be cunning and cruel."

added more softly. "What a terrible moment!"

added more softly. "What a terrible moment!"

all at once he felt that this would not do, and that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound to accept their services.

Count Bezukhov, with that gray mane of hair above his broad forehead whic

th, and its cold, majestic expression, was not disfigured by the approach of death.

I know is that his real will is in his writing t

table, and this is a paper he has forgotten...."

said the count had died as she would herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying

nothing. He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.