Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
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