I have lived through all the phases of family life and seen all the fragility of blood ties; they are strong when supported by a spiritual bond…
I consider the condition of the people whose young generation has no youth to be a great misfortune; we have already understood that one youth is not enough for this.
English! You are a great people, nay more - you are a great crowd. Your punches are more beautiful than sword strikes. You have a big appetite. You are a nation that eats others.
The aristocracy prides itself on what women find embarrassing - old age; but women and aristocracy also harbor the same illusion of self-preservation.
We are most like our own fantasies. Everyone's dream is like their own nature.
In a foreign country, a traveler is a bag of money, which everyone is trying to empty faster.
The world's greatest poets emerged after great social disasters.
The greatness of a people is not measured by number, just as the greatness of a man is not measured by his stature; the only measure is his intellectual development and moral level
Gaze at a star for two reasons: because it shines and because it is unfathomable. But beside you lies a gentler glow and a deeper mystery: a woman.
Brutal manifestations of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, it can be seen that humanity has been shaken well, but has moved forward.
Debt is the beginning of slavery, nay, worse than slavery, for a creditor is more unyielding than a slave-owner: he will possess not only the body, but also the dignity, and may, if need be, insult you.
There are two ways to attract the audience to the theater: with the sublime or with sincerity. The sublime conquers the masses, sincerity bribes the individual.
Fill the gap of ignorance and you will destroy the nest of crime.
Ideas are rare game in the forest of words.
Illusion is the main basis of dreams; if you deprive love of illusion, you will deprive it of food.
A true love knows no satiety. Being entirely spiritual, she cannot get cold.
Nothing is enough for love. She has a share of happiness and wants paradise, she has a share of paradise and wants all heaven. O lovers! All this is in your love. So find it!
Thought is the activity of the mind, dreaming is pleasure. To replace a thought with a dream is to mix poison with food.
The foundations laid for man from childhood are like letters cut into the bark of a young tree, which grow with it, becoming an indispensable part of it.
Ignorance drives us to experiment. Ignorance is receptive to dreaming, and inquisitive dreaming is a power... If Columbus had known cosmography better, he would not have discovered America.
Popularity is fame on a penny.
Poetry does not lie in the form of thoughts, but in the thoughts themselves.
The crimes of authorities cannot be attributed to those over whom they rule: governments are sometimes thugs, but peoples - never.
Progress, tireless, turns its wheels.
And either set it in motion or crush it in its path.
Moving forward, science is constantly denying itself.
Even if universal suffrage has its dark sides, it is still the only way for rational government, for it represents a greater power than brute force.
Revolution is like waves in which it is not good to be either foam or mud.
The greatest happiness in life is the belief that you are loved.
Laughter is like the sun: it banishes winter from a man's face.