أنني متعلق بالخرافات إلى الحد الذي يجعلني أحترم العقاقير
أن يعيش المرء بغير إله فذلك عذاب. يلعن البشر ما قد ينير لهم الطريق، حتى دون أن يفطنوا إلى ما يفعلون. أين العقل والحكمة في هذا؟ إن الإنسان لا يستطيع أن يعيش بغير سجود. بغير سجود لا يمكن أن يحتمل الإنسا...
أعرف أن أحد كتابكم قال فى كتاب (إن أكبر مأثرة من مآثر الإنسان هى أن يعرف كيف يقتصر فى الحياة على القيام بدور «كومبارس».)على لسان الأمير
أري أنه لا يجوز لرجل أن يتحدث عن امرأة إلي شخص آخر. ذلك رأيي أكرره وأصر عليه. أن من تتخذه نجياً وتفضي إليه بأسرارك لن يفهم أبداً.الملاك نفسه لن يفهم.حين تحترم امرأة فلا تتخذ لك نجياً تبوح له بأمورك. و...
А можда ви то сад говорите у бунилу – закључи генералица, па надменим гестом одбаци од себе фотографију на сто.Александра је узе, њој приђе и Аделаида, па је обе стадоше разгледати. У тај мах се Аглај...
İnsanoğlu amacına ilerlemeyi sever, fakat amacını elde etmeyi değil.
İnsanoğlu -her zaman, her yerde, kim olursa olsun- mantığının ve çıkarlarının buyurduğu gibi değil de, gönlünün çektiği gibi davranmıştır; çıkarlarımızda çatışan şeyler de istenebilir, hatta bazen büt...
Well, legislators and leaders of men, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the anci...
We don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join on to, what to c...
We are all privately agreed that it is better in books
Viaţa e un rai în care toţi ne desfătăm, numai că noi nu vrem să ne dăm seama de asta, căci dacă am vrea, chiar mîine tot pâmîntul ar fi un rai.
To be Christians finally, it is our duty and obligation to foster only those convictions that are justified by reason and experience, that have passed through the crucible of analysis, in a word, to a...
To age, General Epanchin was in the very prime of life; that is, about fifty-five years of age,—the flowering time of existence, when real enjoyment of life begins. His
The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons.
That men won’t change and that nobody can alter it and that it’s not worth wasting effort over it. Yes, that’s so. That’s the law of their nature, Sonia,… that’s so!… And I know now, Sonia, that whoev...
People speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
How easily the heart accustoms itself to comforts, and how difficult it is to tear one’s self away from luxuries which have become habitual and, little by little, indispensable.
Avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself.
[…] everything was going in regular caravans to the summer villas. It seemed as though Petersburg threatened to become a wilderness, so that at last I felt ashamed, mortified and sad that I had nowher...
[The Devil] 'The question now,' my young thinker reflected, 'is whether or not it is possible for such a period ever to come. If it does come, then everything will be resolved and mankind will finally...