1. “A man who has good in him does not mind sometimes showing his worse nature.”
2. “The poor people are stupid from poverty, and rich from greed.”
3. “The pleasure of living carries with it the obligation to die.”
4. “The indifferent pendulum of the clock kept chopping off the seconds of life, calmly and precisely.”
5. “Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
6. “When life is monotonous, even grief is a welcome event…”
7. “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
8. “Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of free man.”
9. “Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.”
10. “When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
11. “All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one.”
12. “God created man in his own image and after his own likeness. Therefore he is like man if man is like him.”
13. “It’s fear that’s the ruin of us. And those who boss us take advantage of our fear and keep bullying us.”
14. “For sadness and gladness live within us side by side, almost inseparable; the one succeeding the other with an elusive, unappreciable swiftness.”
15. “Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.”
16. “You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.”
17. “In the carriages of the past you can’t go anywhere.”
18. “A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.”
19. “The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.”
20. “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
21. “Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.”
22. “In the maxim of past you cannot go anywhere.”
23. “When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
24. “One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man…”
25. “One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.”
26. “You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.”
27. “All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.”
28. “Our most merciless enemy is our past.”
29. “Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.”
30. “Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.”
