The measure of a people is not given by what it is, but by what it considers to be beautiful and true, which makes it sigh.
Alms corrupts both the one who gives it and the one who receives it, and more than that, without achieving its goal, it only strengthens begging.
Is it possible to love all people? Of course not, it would even be unnatural. In the abstract love of all mankind, you almost always love only yourself.
We must not rise above the children, because we are worse than them. And if we teach them something to make them better, they make us better by coming into contact with us.
That is why the mind is given, to get what you want.
You must love life more than the meaning of life.
Not the best are strong, but the honest. Self honor and dignity are the strongest.
Do not demand the rights of all mankind, otherwise you will be the first to call the law for help.
It is not enough to determine morality by faithfulness to one's own beliefs. You have to ask yourself: are my beliefs true?
Absurdities are too necessary on earth. The world is built on absurdities, and without them, probably, nothing in it could have happened.
You can't love what you don't know!
You can cross the whole world with the help of a lie, but you will not be able to turn back.
There is no greater idea than to sacrifice your life, defending your brothers and motherland.
There is nothing in the world harder than sincerity and nothing easier than flattery.
There is no happiness in the absence of action.
With no science you will not build a society, if you lack a noble material, if you lack the living and good will to live honestly and with love.
Science will show the benefits and prove that it is most profitable to be honest.
Not being surprised at anything is, without doubt, a sign of stupidity, not of wisdom.
What should I do if I know that at the base of all human virtues lies the deepest selfishness. And the more virtuous a situation, the more selfishness is present. Love yourself - that's the only rule I recognize. Life is a business transaction.
Moral is only that which corresponds to your sense of beauty and that ideal in which you embody it.
Civic social ideals, which are not organically connected with moral ideals, have never existed and cannot exist!
He was kind to those to whom he did good, but especially to those to whom he did even greater good.
Describing a flower out of love for nature contains more civic sense than unmasking some scoundrels, because here we are talking about a contact with nature, love for nature.
Justify, not punish, but call evil evil.
The main idea must always be much higher than the possibility of its realization.
Only that war which was started for an idea, for a supreme principle, and not for material interests or to plunder greedily, proves useful.
Decent manners consist of sincerity and honesty.
Praise is always chaste.
To penetrate the heart. Here is a deep thought, for what does it mean to "seem in the heart"? To instill morality, the thirst for morality.
May the judges pardon the criminals; the misfortune is that the criminals themselves will begin to forgive themselves.