You only have time to think about the future when you have no future in front of you.
Besides the things that anyone can learn—dressing well and speaking properly, and all that stuff—a lady is distinguished from a flower girl not by the way she carries herself, but by the way she others deal with it.
Strive to get what you want or you will have to want what you got.
A woman's need is to get married as soon as possible, and a man's need is not to marry while he is still strong.
Nature does not tolerate waste: when people do not know the truth, they fill in the gaps with assumptions.
A rational man adapts to the world; the irrational one tries to adapt the world to him. That is why progress always depends on the irrational.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted this burden from one shoulder to another.
Reputation is a mask that a man has to wear just like he wears his pants and jacket.
A doctor's reputation depends on the number of famous personalities he has sent to the other world.
The secret is not in good or bad behavior, but in the ability to treat everyone the same. That is, to act as if you were in heaven where there are no third-class passengers and all immortal souls are equal to each other.
It happens like this quite often: the main weight is not given to the main role.
Those who have learned the most know the least.
What we call success is, in fact, the reward of every man endowed with talent.
Only laughter punishes evil with gentleness and strengthens good relationships without drooling.
When reading a biography, remember that the truth is not meant for publication.
I serve the public, but I don't bow to it.
Small states thrive due to harmony, large states perish due to discord.
The greatness of a calamity is measured not by its essence, but by the manner in which it falls upon man.
In each of us live two people, one of them scolding the other for what they have done.
In a mistress look for everything you want: mind, temperament, poetic mood, sensitivity, but with your wife you live a whole life, so look for something in you that you can rely on, look for the foundation.
In the world of evil, foolishness, trust, and doubt, which is called existence, there is one thing worth living for, and which is undoubtedly stronger than death; this is love.
You can never do too much for a devoted friend.
Friendship is like an immortal, although it is a white flower: it never withers.
If love cannot protect you from death, then at least it reconciles you to life.
If a blind man, tripping over a stone, falls, people will always blame the stone, although the fault belongs only to his blindness.
The woman is the most powerful being in the world, and it is up to her to lead the man where God wants him to lead.
Whoever wants not to be swallowed by the whirlpool, must be able to swim.
Only cowards lie.
A lie is like oil - it slides over the surface of the truth.
Better an honest enemy than a cunning friend.