Whatever begins in anger ends in shame.
To be satisfied with your situation, compare it to a worse situation.
I would agree to relive my life from beginning to end. I will only ask for the right, which the writers use, to correct in the second edition the mistakes in the first.
I will not say anything bad about anyone, but I will say the best I know about each one.
Most of the simple minds make a living by building castles from playing cards, although even the staunchest of them rarely completes the construction in their lifetime.
The struggle between what is old, stable, constant and evolution, processing and transformation is always the same. All order eventually leads to pedantry; to get rid of it, order is destroyed, and things go on like this for a while, until the need to restore order is noticed.
To be human is to be a fighter.
In nature there are accessible and inaccessible areas. We must understand this and treat it with respect. The man who does not understand this can struggle all his life for something that is inaccessible to him. On the other hand, the man who is intelligent enough to limit himself to the accessible area, examining it from all sides and consolidating his knowledge, will be able, to a certain extent, to penetrate the inaccessible area as well. However, he will have to admit that there is something mysterious in nature, and understanding this is beyond human capabilities.
Great passions are like incurable diseases... And the cures that could cure them make the disease even more dangerous. Passions are vices and virtues only stronger.
Faith is not the beginning but the end of all wisdom.
Sensitivity to something good and great is rarely found in people, and therefore in everyday life it is better to keep these considerations unspoken and express them only to the extent necessary to gain some advantages over others . Man recognizes and glorifies only that which he himself is capable of, but since the very existence of other people is rooted in mediocrity, they resort to cunning tricks: they insult in every way what, in literature, really deserves to be disapproved of, although it may that it would contain a good seed, so that the mediocrity they praise would rise even higher.
Time has its rights not only in terms of people but also in terms of monuments.
Everything that now grows and blossoms, whether they are foreign children or my own, is life, isn't it, life? What else can remind me that I exist and in what form do I exist?
Every initiative, like every man, suffers from the age as much as it finds its advantages.
Remarkable people are never ungrateful.
Big goals, even unfulfilled, are dearer to us than small goals, even if they have been achieved.
Speak persuasively, the words and influence on people will come naturally.
As if love had anything in common with reason!
The real attention lies precisely in the fact that it instantly transforms any trifle into something significant.
If you lose the good - you don't lose much, if you lose your honor - you lose a lot, if you lose your courage - you lose everything. To live learn to win.
Soul and body are inseparable.
If the man takes care of studying his body or his state of mind, he will immediately declare himself ill.
Human life is like a strategy. We begin to discern it only when the campaign is over.
And a mistake can be useful while we are young, if only we don't carry it with us into old age.
Discovering something on your own is wonderful, but should knowing and appreciating what others discover be less than creating? Man is able to know himself only through other people.
Unfortunately, man has too many reasons to protect himself from man. There are many people with bad intentions, there are not a few villains, and good deeds are not enough to live properly.
Every day you must listen to at least one song, admire a beautiful painting and, if possible, read at least one wise maxim.
No matter how much the fog and clouds cover the light, it always reaches us... This observation made me assert - in my poetic, scientific and artistic creations - the dominance of light over fog, the obvious over premonition, so that by depicting the external aspect of the phenomenon, we can always determine what lies within.
When the gods appear to humans, the latter usually do not recognize them.
Whoever tends to a certain thing must be able to fight for it, otherwise there is absolutely no point in taking up anything.