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1  To combat the evil which sways the world.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
2  Every sphere of work was connected, in his eyes, with evil and deception.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
3  And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV
4  The adjutant, also, had evidently had no evil intent though he might have refrained from coming in.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER X
5  For us with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVIII
6  The others, one's neighbors, le prochain, as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and evil.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
7  Whatever he tried to be, whatever he engaged in, the evil and falsehood of it repulsed him and blocked every path of activity.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
8  That is why I should really like to save him from evil and lead him into the path of truth, but evil thoughts of him did not leave me.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
9  She was at that height of bliss when one becomes completely kind and good and does not believe in the possibility of evil, unhappiness, or sorrow.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVII
10  Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
11  The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostov was more and more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVII
12  By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which sways the world.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
13  He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
14  Pfuel and his adherents demanded a retirement into the depths of the country in accordance with precise laws defined by a pseudo-theory of war, and they saw only barbarism, ignorance, or evil intention in every deviation from that theory.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
15  Having put him in the corner she would herself begin to cry over her cruel, evil nature, and little Nicholas, following her example, would sob, and without permission would leave his corner, come to her, pull her wet hands from her face, and comfort her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II
16  At the first glance, when Davout had only raised his head from the papers where human affairs and lives were indicated by numbers, Pierre was merely a circumstance, and Davout could have shot him without burdening his conscience with an evil deed, but now he saw in him a human being.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER X
17  But these orders and reports were only on paper, nothing in them was acted upon for they could not be carried out, and though they entitled one another Majesties, Highnesses, or Cousins, they all felt that they were miserable wretches who had done much evil for which they had now to pay.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVI
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