in Quotes & Aphorisms (Solidarity )
If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
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How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.
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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.
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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.
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Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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