If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
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