Miserable is he who lives without an ideal!
Woman is not only capable of understanding sacrifice: she knows how to sacrifice herself.
He who has lived without being lenient with the outcasts does not deserve lenience.
He who tends to achieve a great goal must not think only of himself.
Both Love and Hunger have one goal: life must not disappear, both one's own and that of others - for it is one and the same life.
Love is stronger than death and the fear of death. Only it, only love maintains and makes life go on.
Music is reason embodied in wonderful sounds.
Poetry does not consist only in its lines: it is spread everywhere, it is around us. Look at these trees, at this sky, everywhere there is beauty and life, and where there is beauty and life, there is poetry.
He who has no hope left is not jealous.
There is nothing more painful than realizing that you have done something stupid.
O youth! Youth!... Probably, the secret of your charm lies not in the power to do anything, but in the power of belief that you will be able to do anything.
Hunting...brings us closer to nature, teaches us to be patient, and sometimes, to be fearless when danger arises.
Only the one who loves has the right to argue and correct.
Nature... awakens in us the need to love...
Russia can do without any of us, but none of us can do without it. Unhappy is he who really believes this, and twice as unhappy is he who really can do without it.
Skepticism has always been characterized by incapacity and futility.
The word "tomorrow" is invented for indecisive people and children.
If you are afraid of ridicule, it means that you do not love the truth.
Argue with the fool too! You won't get any fame or benefits anyway... But why not have fun sometimes! Argue with a man of your own measure: it doesn't matter who wins, at least you'll have the satisfaction of having fought. Controversy with a man more precious than you; he argues not from the desire to win, but from that of being useful to him. Argue with a man smarter than you: he will win... But even though you lost, you can benefit from something that will be useful to you.
Death is something old, known, but for each of us it is something new.
Happiness is like health: when you don't notice it then it means it exists.
Only because of it, love, life endures and moves forward.
We all have an anchor from which we will never break free if we don't want to: the sense of duty.
Happiness can be neither tomorrow nor yesterday, it can be neither in the past nor in the future, but only in the present - and it does not last a day, but only a moment.
Education is not only light, as the popular saying goes, but also freedom. Nothing sets a man free like teaching...
do you want to be happy First learn to suffer.
Do you want to know this heavy guilt that you cannot understand and that even I cannot explain to you?
A man without pride is nothing. Pride is Archimedes' lever, with which you can move the earth.
Man is able to understand everything: how the ether stirs and what happens on the sun, but he is not able to understand how another person does things differently than he does.
Man is always ashamed and uncomfortable when he talks too much.