Wine tames man, hardens him and makes him deviate from bright thoughts, makes him stupid.
The greatest and most characteristic feature of our people is the sense of justice and the thirst for justice.
Supreme happiness compels the soul.
The main thing in a person is not the mind, but what drives it: the heart, good feelings, progressive ideas.
Humanity is just a habit, a fruit of civilization. It can disappear completely.
Cursed be these interests of civilization, and even civilization itself, if not for its preservation it is necessary to flay, the skin from men.
A fool who has admitted that he is a fool is no longer a fool.
It is a bad sign if people no longer understand an irony, an allegory, a joke.
If you're heading towards a goal and stopping to throw stones at every dog that barks at you, you'll never reach your destination.
If you want to search a man and know his soul, then do not concern yourself with how he is silent, speaks or cries, how he looks worried about the noblest ideas, but rather look at him when he laughs. If a man laughs healthily, he is therefore a good man.
If you want, man must be deeply unhappy, in order to feel happiness at some point. And if he will always be happy, anything can make him deeply unhappy.
There are times when people love crime.
There are three types of villains in the world: naive villains, those who believe that their villainy is the highest nobility, villains who are ashamed of their own villainy but still intend to see it through, and finally , simply the scoundrels, the pure blood scoundrels.
Life is boring without a moral purpose, it is not worth living just to eat, and the worker knows this - therefore there must be a moral occupation in life.
The idea of immortality is life itself, living life, its ultimate formula and the primary source of truth and consciousness for mankind.
Sometimes it is more profitable to have someone among enemies than among friends.
Art is a human need just like eating and drinking. The need for beauty and the creation that embodies it are inseparable from man, and without them, man would probably not want to live in the world.
Art has never left man, it has always responded to his needs and ideals, it has always helped him in the pursuit of this ideal, it was born with man and developed alongside his historical existence.
If honor is gone, there remains a form of honor equivalent to honor death.
Every man assumes responsibility to all men for all and for everything.
What is the difference between a demon and a human? Goethe's Mephistopheles says: "I am a part of that part of the whole which wills evil, but does good." Unfortunately, the man could say the exact opposite about himself.
He who is inclined to easily lose respect for others does not respect himself in the first place.
He who does not love nature, he does not love man, he is not a citizen.
He who wants to be useful can do a lot of good even with his hands tied.
Only scoundrels tell lies.
He who lies to himself and who listens to his own lie ends up not distinguishing the truth either in himself or around him, and therefore no longer respects himself or others.
Only through work and struggle is originality and self-esteem acquired.
Only by assimilating to perfection, as much as possible, the initial material, that is, the mother tongue, will we be able to learn to perfection, as much as possible, a foreign language, and not before.
The best men are known by the highest degree of moral development and by the greatest moral influence.
Love is so powerful, it makes us reborn.