One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVPassions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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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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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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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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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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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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