Man cannot live honestly and at the same time in prosperity and respect.
More shameful than old men's love Is their thorny elk.
When memories wither in our hearts, death makes them bloom in his hands.
Croit lovers, fools and poets are all made of dough!
On the changing earth Nothing is higher than glory.
We must admit that the position of the Russian God is not a sinecure.
Happy is he who has visited this world In its fatal moments!
A conversation in letters tires you almost as much as a game of chess by mail.
I don't miss the homeland, but foreignness.
The history of Russia up to Peter the Great is a whole mess, and after Peter the Great, a criminal trial.
Most men demand from their wives qualities that they themselves do not deserve.
He who has nothing to say speaks the most.
When it comes to tricks, the fool beats the smart.
In popular speech, the laws of language birth always exist and operate.
When indecisive, act quickly and try to take the first step, or even one more.
Man carries within him the need to be happy; apparently this is a legal thing.
The authority of one person over another destroys the authoritarian first of all.
To hate life is possible only as a result of apathy and laziness.
All ideas that lead to enormous consequences are always simple.
All people in the world have the same right to use the world's natural resources and equal rights to respect each other.
All happy families are alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
We always think we are loved because we are good. And we do not realize that we are loved because those who love us are good.
Any openly expressed thought, however false, any plainly conveyed fancy, however absurd, cannot fail to find understanding in every soul.
The major obstacle to knowing the truth is not the lie, but the simulacrum of the truth.
The main quality in any art is a sense of proportion.
Humanity's progress towards good is not made by executioners, but by martyrs.
People should never grieve in two situations: that in which they can be helpful and that in which they cannot be helpful.
To understand the thoughts of others it is not necessary to have thoughts of your own.
To make it easier for you to live with another person, think about what unites you with that person, and not what separates you from them.
The good you do from the heart, you always do to yourself.