1. “Bread without love is like grass without salt – the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.”
2. “Everything in life was joyous, everything in life was important, everything should be done well.”
3. “To succeed in life one needs two things – influence and a lucky star.”
4. “There is no beast more cruel than man.”
5. “The banks of life cannot hold my love, which is as broad as the sea.”
6. “All perishes, all decay, all is born again.”
7. “Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.”
8. “When a woman weeps, it is a man’s shame.”
9. “When a man has the rope about his neck, you don’t ask him about his health!”
10. “Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.”
11. “Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.”
12. “Only the dead know the truth.”
13. “Literature, which I have the honor to serve, is dear to me just because the noblest task it sets before itself is that of wiping out boundaries and distances.”
14. “Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.”
15. “Yes, I do read books but the only for one purpose: to learn how to hate man and hold him in contempt.”
