If your wife betrayed you, be glad that she betrayed you, and not the motherland.
If too many medicines are given for a certain disease, it means that the disease is incurable.
If you want to have a little time, do nothing.
Going to Paris with your wife is like going to Tula with a samovar.
Women without men wither, and men without women become fools.
When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
When I finished drinking the tea with a roll, I say to myself: I have no appetite! When I've finished reading a poem or a novel, I say: no, it's not right!
Brevity is the sister of talent.
He who puts the peace of his loved ones above all else must renounce the intellectual life entirely.
He who cannot conquer with the help of comfort, will not be able to conquer with the help of harshness.
Lying is like alcoholism. Liars lie even when they are dying.
Those we fear, we flatter.
Must be clear minded, morally clean and physically fit.
We only need what we need.
To be a real man is to be a husband and dignified.
Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
To carve a face out of marble means to remove from this piece what does not belong to the face.
Everything that is not clear to us appears as a miracle.
Without war, no nation will free itself from foreign rule.
Without the feelings of a citizen, a male child, growing up, becomes a male being of middle age, but does not become a man, or at least does not become a man of noble character.
The welfare of a society declines because of the existence of ignorant, immoral or lazy people in that society; these bad qualities of men can be removed only in two ways: by seeing that every person benefits from a proper education, and by keeping man from poverty.
Wealth is something you can live happily without. But well-being is a necessary thing for happiness.
There is only one happiness in life beyond any doubt, and that is to live for others.
The power of talent lies in the truth: misdirection destroys the strongest talent.
Respect for scientists is only a variant of respect for science, love of knowledge, love of truth, namely, a transfer of only these feelings to various people.
They say that a trip is the best way to learn everything: it's true, how true! How much you can learn from here.
There are cases where the harm of the prohibited is much greater than the harm of the prohibition. In such cases, the measures of force are justified by reason and prescribed by conscience, provided, of course, that they are not more severe or embarrassing than necessary to obtain benefits.
All that is true and good is achieved by struggle and by the loss of men who have sacrificed themselves in preparing this ideal; and the best future must be prepared likewise.
Where there is no life, there is no idea, where there is no infinite diversity, there is no life.
Human activity is empty and meaningless when there is no idea in life.