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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Alexander Pushkin

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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
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Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
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