Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINPlease, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
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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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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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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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Play interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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A man who’s active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what’s known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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