Are you running ahead? - Are you doing this like a shepherd? Or is it something exceptional? Every third is just a fugitive... the first question of conscience.
Difficult, conceited people become more loyal precisely because they distract others from love and hate, and for a time rise to their own surface.
Do you want to instill sympathy in him? Then pretend to lose yourself in front of him.
"Bad people have no songs." - So how come Russians have songs?
In women, in the depths of their vanity, is found an impersonal contempt - the contempt "of woman."
For severe people, honesty is a subject of shame, but also something precious.
The devil has the broadest views of God; therefore he and keep away from it - the devil is the intimate friend of knowledge.
It is terrible to die of thirst at sea. Don't you want to be so salted in the truth that you can never quench your thirst?
Familiarity bothers the strong man because he cannot pay with the same coin.
The formula of my happiness is: Yes, No, a straight line, a goal...
Do you want to be a companion? Or move forward? Or do you want to go alone? You have to know what you want and if you want it. The fourth problem of consciousness.
Often, sensitivity defeats the bud of love, so that the root remains weak and breaks easily.
The more abstract the truth you want to say, the more you have to entice feelings with it.
The trodden worm begins to squirm. This is something rational. Thus, he decreases the probability of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility.
What are you looking for? Would you like to marry or marry? Looking for followers? Look for voids!
The fact that God learned Greek when he wanted to become a writer hides a great subtlety - as well as the fact that he did not learn it better.
We begin to learn what a man is when his talent declines—when he no longer shows what he can do. Talent is like a garment, and a garment is a way to hide yourself.
To live in solitude you must be an animal or a God, says Aristotle. There is a third situation: to be both, that is, a philosopher.
We do not like a foreign vanity when it touches our own vanity.
These were steps for me, I rose above them - for that I had to climb them. But they thought I wanted to sit on them to rest...
"I do not like this." - Why? "He's not ready for this." - Did any man answer like that?
I do not trust any systematic man, and therefore I avoid them. The desire for system is a shortcoming of honesty.
I wish, once and for all, that I don't know much anymore. Wisdom presupposes some limits in the field of knowledge as well.
"I did that," my memory tells me. "I couldn't do that," my pride tells me firmly. Eventually, memory fails.
Adultery does more harm than good to marriage.
Architecture is the expression of morality.
Fiction represents a particular history of nations.
A noble heart cannot be unfaithful.
A marriage cannot be happy if the spouses, before getting married, did not know each other's morals, habits and characters perfectly.
The future of the nation is in the hands of mothers.