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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINDon’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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 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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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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