Happy is he who has found his purpose in life; we don't have any more.
Piety and sour face are two different things.
The treasure of the world is represented by the original people. Thanks to them and their works, the world is a world, and not a desert. The memories of men and the history of lives is the power of mankind, its sacred wealth for eternity, which supports and helps it as far as possible to advance through the still unexplored depths.
The greatness of a remarkable man is manifested in the way he treats the little people.
All the bullies need to understand one thing: it's stupid to be bullied.
Man always has to "pay with his life" he has to, like the soldier, do his job by putting his life on the line.
All work is noble and only work is noble.
No greatness is aware of itself, otherwise it is small and void.
Genius is above all the ability to be responsible for everything.
Geniuses were our genuine men, our remarkable men, leaders of the foolish herd who followed them as if they submitted to fate. They possessed the rare ability not only to find solutions and think, but also to know and believe. They were naturally inclined to live not on hearsay, but on certain conceptions. While some, blinded by the outward aspects of things, run aimlessly through the great maze of life, they examine the essence of things, and go forward like men who have before them a guiding star, and who walk in sure paths.
The main organ of the human body, the unshakable foundation on which the soul rests, is the wallet.
Two, three people are already a Society. One will become God and the other, the devil. One will preach from the pulpit, the other will swing from a beam.
If Jesus Christ had appeared today, no one would have crucified him, they would have invited him to the table, they would have listened to him and they would have laughed heartily at him.
If you want to stop someone from doing something, make them talk about it: the more people talk, the less inclined they are to act.
If we ourselves are slaves, for us heroes cannot exist.
If a man knows his measure, then he knows everything.
Life is a very short period of time between two eternities...
The life of a remarkable man is not a merry dance, but a struggle and a march, a struggle with sovereigns and whole kingdoms.
The wanderings of a wise man are more instructive than the truth of a fool.
A healthy person is the most precious, masterpiece of nature.
Health is a great thing both to the one who enjoys it and to others.
A shower of gold would erase all borders.
The ideal is within yourself. The obstacles to its attainment are all within you. You yourself are the material out of which you must realize this ideal.
Of all rights, the most undeniable is the right of the wise man to draw the foolish man after him (either by force or by persuasion).
Of all the expressions of human creativity the book is the most astonishing and the most worthy of attention. In books live the thoughts of past times; the voices of men whose bones have shattered like a dream are heard clear and distinct. Everything that humanity has created, everything that it has achieved, everything has been miraculously preserved in the pages of books.
Being able to get excited about something gives a person honest joy; nothing raises him - even for a little while - above the mean condition, like honest enthusiasm.
History is a quintessence of gossip.
World history is a biography of remarkable people.
The book is the pure essence of the human soul.
No matter how often we are told that a longer and more detailed acquaintance with people and things diminishes our enthusiasm, or that only the unknown or half-known can seem uplifting to us, we must not believe this unconditionally. And in this case, as in many others, it is not knowledge and an insufficient knowledge that makes us fools and again replaces enthusiasm for the object of knowledge with enthusiasm for the knower himself.