But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
NIKOLAI GOGOLCountless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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