Friendship is not a service, there is no thanks for it.
Live and let others live.
It is known that the burning feeling is expressed briefly but strongly.
As in the sea the waters run fast, so in eternity the years and days run away.
When the people don't like something, the troops and the money destroy them.
We love the news of our country and its smoke is sweet to us.
In the bones of my enemies the worm dwells, and I am eternal - I am immortal...
To-day flattering hope embraces me, but to-morrow—where art thou, man?
The Russian-Slavonic language, according to the testimonies of foreign estheticians, is not inferior either to the brave Latin language, or to the refined Greek language, surpassing all European languages - Italian, French and Spanish, and even German.
Temperance is the best feast.
Excessive praise is a mockery.
There is no philosophy without the idea of the whole.
The height of madness is to set as your goal the destruction of passions.
Any language is basically poor for a writer with a vivid imagination.
Everything is defined by utility.
Brilliant people read little, do a lot, and create themselves.
Deep thoughts are iron nails, so good that they cannot be removed by anything.
It is much easier to miss the meal and the prayer than the shoes.
Even the staunchest skeptics live with the hope that they could be wrong.
It is enough for the truth to triumph over the few but deserving. The truth does not aim to please everyone.
If there is still freedom, it is the result of ignorance. When two possibilities are available to us and we have no reason to prefer one of them, only then do we choose the one we want.
Men distinguished by their talents must spend their time as respect for themselves and their posterity demands. What would posterity think of us if we left them nothing as a legacy?
Nothing is more contradictory to living nature, to animated and sensitive beings, than silence.
By rewarding the good, we thus punish the bad.
In vain the coward beats his breast to muster up his courage; courage must be had before it can be strengthened in relation to those who possess it.
The inconvenience is not in having opinions, but in letting yourself be blinded by them in spite of experience.
We must strive to popularize philosophy. If we want philosophy to progress, we must bring the people to the level of the philosophers.
Truth, goodness, and beauty have their rights; they are denied but ultimately admired; what is not under their sway may delight for a time, but in the end bore.
The truth is not without spicy attributes that can be captured if you are gifted with genius.
Nature is like a woman who likes to change her clothes all the time - the variety of her costumes, which draw your eye to one part of the body, then to the other, gives persistent admirers the hope of never seeing her in full.