3 passages by Leo Tolstoy, from Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy died in 1910, so the words are in the public domain; the English translation by Constance Garnett, Louise and Aylmer Maude is too. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
Russian novelist (1828–1910), author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The passages here are from translations by translators who died long ago.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.
It is not difficult to capture a fortress but it is difficult to win a campaign. For that, not storming and attacking but patience and time are wanted.
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