Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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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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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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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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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