The woman is sometimes much sharper than the man.
The wisdom of ancient people consisted in their ability to respect in all measure.
The biggest mistake in education is that young people are not taught to think independently.
The word "almost" is very useful because it can be used when people want to say and not say something at the same time.
Imagination ... resembles our deeds, and if these deeds correspond to what we call our duty, or virtue, then imagination only increases the peace and joy within us.
Education does not give a man anything that he could not get by himself, but in this way he gets it faster and easier.
The highest praise for an artist is when you forget all praise by looking at his creation.
The hero is a man who knows things more precious than life, a man who devotes his life to the service of the state and himself to the service of others.
A swift horse may fall where a cautious donkey goes straight.
If people always thought about the outcome of their actions, they would not take action.
Even if good advice comes from a fool, it must be put into practice by a wise one.
If you happen to hear about someone's gross ingratitude, first clarify all the aspects of that situation properly, and only then draw a conclusion about such a shameful reproach. True do-gooders rarely reproach anyone for their lack of gratitude, and indeed, I like to think, to the credit of these people, that they never do. And the benefactors, animated by their petty ambitions, must reproach themselves that instead of gratitude they receive the lack of it.
There are very few voices that do not become unbearable in tense situations; and swift, stormy movements are seldom noble.
Bad people always look for darker places precisely because they are bad. And what if they hide from everyone? The conscience that accuses us is more important than the whole world.
Elegant, rich, ceremonial speech is incompatible with feeling. It does not serve his authentic expression, nor can it arouse it. But the feeling is satisfied with the simplest, ordinary, even vulgar words and expressions.
True living is the most problematic thing about an actor's talent. It can be present when it is not observed, and conversely, it can be assumed where it is completely absent.
Fulfilling the obligations arising from friendship is somewhat more difficult than getting excited about its existence.
How far is the actor who understands a passage, from the one who lives it!
What a shame that we can't draw directly with our eyes! How much is lost on the long way from the eye, through the hand, to the brush!
When we are awesome, we are like that and unadorned.
The beauty of the soul gives charm even to a desolate aspect, just as soul shamelessness leaves on the most attractive appearance and on the most handsome parts of the body an imprint that awakens in us an unimaginable disgust.
Which wise man does not merely imagine that he is wise?
Those who seek friends deserve to find them. He who has no friends has never looked for them.
"Who wants to write about you, when nobody wants to look at you," says an old epigramist about a shameless man.
Whoever does not lose his mind in certain situations means that he has nothing to lose.
Love must be selfless.
People are not always what they seem.
People who admit that they have wandered down forbidden paths cannot be unduly harsh. But it shouldn't either. Because it is not the obstacles raised by virtue in front of love that are important, but to know how to forgive the human weakness of those who left behind these obstacles and to analyze with reason the consequences arising from them.
The dreamer often correctly determines the future, but is impatient for it to come in its time. He wants to use his powers to bring him to the present. What nature would make possible in a thousand years, he wants to see accomplished in his lifetime.
Life is a pendulum clock whose weights are money and the pendulum is the woman.