Do as I say, but don't say as I do - this is a form of corrected Jesuitism.
A detailed study of certain organs allows you to understand the life of the whole organism.
The good done by an enemy is as hard to forget as the good done by a friend is hard to remember. For good, we pay good only to an enemy; but for evil, we take revenge on both enemy and friend.
A good man is not one who knows how to do good, but one who does not know how to do evil.
Friendship can exist without love, but love without friendship does not exist.
Friendship is usually a transition from mere acquaintance to enmity.
There are two types of talkers: some talk too much to say nothing, others talk just as much because they don't know what to say. Some talk to hide what they believe, others - to hide that they don't believe anything.
There are two kinds of fools: some do not understand what they are all bound to understand; others understand what no one needs to understand.
There are women that no one falls in love with, but that everyone loves. There are women that everyone falls in love with, but no one loves. Happy is only that woman whom all love, but with whom only one man is in love.
The reproach that we are not understood often comes from the fact that we ourselves do not understand people.
Women forgive everything, with one exception: bad behavior.
Men marry hopes, women marry promises.
To live is to be loved. He or she lived - means only one thing: he or she was much loved or loved.
The legitimacy of historical events is inversely proportional to their spirituality.
A sane and sane man carves the Venus de Milo after his Akulina, and sees in the Venus de Milo nothing more than his Akulina.
Both the Muscovite and the Ukrainian are cunning people, and the cunning of both is expressed through pretense. But both pretend in their own way: one likes to pretend to be stupid, the other to pretend to be smart.
Out of a hundred witty people, one is clever.
Sometimes it is necessary to break a rule in order to save its power.
Art is a substitute for life, because art is loved by those who have failed in life.
The real purpose of charity is not to do good, but to have no one left to do good.
History is wise after the event. He sees the present from behind, and not from the front. The historian has plenty of memories and examples, but he has neither intuition nor premonitions.
History does not teach us anything, it only punishes for unlearned lessons.
How can she not be smart, if her whole life is taking care of such fools.
When an actor does not understand who he is playing, he is involuntarily playing himself.
When people want a fight but don't expect it, it doesn't happen; when they expect it, but want no quarrel, it will happen without fail.
Some women who are beautiful in their old age are very stupid for the simple fact that they were very beautiful in their youth.
Strong words cannot be strong evidence.
A great success consists of many details planned and thought out.
He who, being a man, despises men, must also despise himself, because only animals have the right to despise men.
He who has friends who hate each other deserves their common hatred.