A bone thrown to a dog is no mercy; mercy is the bone shared with a dog, when you are no less hungry than he is.
Better to be dust and ashes! Better that my flame be extinguished in a blinding spark, Than mold choke it!
The beginning of the road - a glass, the middle - a society of drunken companions, a light drink, about two glasses at the table. The end - in prison for a drunken murder, for embezzlement; in a mental hospital, in a grave due to a random minor illness.
Many people, overburdened with intellectual work, and workers, falling into error, step on the path that alcohol leads to death.
A drunkard is able to do things that he would not have done on purpose if he had not been drunk.
Alcohol always reaches out to us, when we have a setback, we are exhausted...
I get intimidated when I see my human limitations, which prevent me from covering all aspects of the problem, especially when it comes to the fundamental issues of life.
In character, in manners, in style, in everything, the most beautiful is simplicity.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
No matter how cruel fate may be to a man, no matter how abandoned and lonely he may be, there will always be a heart, even if unknown to him, open to answer his heart's call.
When nature leaves a deficiency in one's mind, it usually applies a thick layer of complacency over it.
Love offers itself as a gift; it is impossible to buy it.
The young may die, the old must.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
We judge ourselves by our ability to accomplish, while others judge us by what we have already accomplished.
Do not say of love that it is wasted in vain! Love never goes in vain; even if she has not enriched the other's heart, the waters of love, returning to their source, will fill him, like rain, with freshness and coolness.
Don't look at the past with nostalgia. He will not return. Deal wisely with your present. He is yours. Go forward, into the uncertain future, without fear and with a brave heart.
Old age holds the same possibilities as youth, only in different clothes.
Analysis is not the job of the poet. His vocation is to reproduce, not to divide.
A great mind and a great mountain are the first to catch and reflect the morning sun.
In any age the most vicious representatives of the human race must be sought among the popular leaders.
Nowadays, many politicians are wont to speak with aplomb about the fact that the people do not deserve freedom until they learn to use it. This conclusion honors the fool in an old story who decided not to enter the water until he learned to swim.
The correct definition of politeness would be: kindness in small things.
Probably no one can be a poet, even if he loves poetry, if he is not at least a little crazy.
There won't be ten people in the whole world whose deaths would spoil my dinner, but there are one or two whose deaths would break my heart.
In the fleet of Charles II there were gentlemen and sailors, but the sailors were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not sailors.
Reward and punishment dominate everything in the world. Anything but the heart.
Every tyrant is so interested that he alone may plunder his people, and the means by which this end is attained are so plain and simple, that it is probably easier for the people to live under a tyranny of the most brutal than in anarchy.
The dominant religion is never ascetic.
Ancient philosophy was not a path, but a mill. It consists of questions that went round in circles, and of contradictions that returned to the starting point. There is enormous tension in it and there is no progress.