Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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