Aphorisms, sayings and quotes from French writers

Aphorisms and quotes from Goethe

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von, 08/28/1749–03/22/1832. German poet, thinker, naturalist.

Architecture is petrified music.

To live without benefit is untimely death.

Everyone likes nobility, especially if it is accompanied by modesty.

Blessed is he who honors his ancestors with a pure heart.

God is everything if we stand tall; if we stand low, he is the complement of our wretchedness.

It is a big mistake to dream of yourself more than you should, and to value yourself lower than you are worth.

To be afraid of grief is not to know happiness.

To be human means to be a fighter.

Everything in love is a risk.

Inspiration is not a herring that can be pickled for many years.

If you want to be great, know how to shrink, all mastery lies in self-restraint.

The great and reasonable are in the minority... One cannot dream of reason becoming universal among the people. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will forever remain the lot of a select few.

The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music.

The greatness of man lies in the fact that he is the only one of all creations who can turn a moment into eternity.

A villain cannot achieve greatness.

Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all wisdom.

Faith is a rainbow bridge between heaven and earth, for the joy of everyone; but each of the wanderers sees it differently, depending on the place where he is.

A fool who has fallen in love is full of stupidity: He will give the sun, the moon, and the stars to the fireworks - for the beauty's fun!

Enmity is active discontent, envy is passive; Therefore, one should not be surprised if envy quickly turns into hatred.

Time is the truest ally of perseverance.

Everything great and reasonable is in the minority... One cannot dream of reason becoming popular among the people. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will forever remain the lot of a select few.

All laws are created by old people and men. Young people and women want exceptions, old people want rules.

It is always better to express directly what you think and not worry about a lot of evidence: no matter how much we bring, they will only be an expression of our opinions, and opponents do not listen to either opinions or evidence.

You can always find enough time if you use it well.

The entire history of the Church is a mixture of error and violence.

Anyone who does not believe in the Hereafter is dead to this life.

Any kind of unprincipled activity ultimately leads to bankruptcy.

An outstanding artist often cannot judge either his own or others’ works.

Expressing your opinion is like advancing a pawn in a chess game: the pawn may die, but the game begins and can be won.

High goals, even if impossible, are dearer to us than low goals, even if achieved.

The highest and most beautiful thing in human nature is love for one’s native land, a sense of freedom and independence under the protection of domestic laws.

Where stupidity is a model, there reason is madness.

Hypotheses are lullabies with which the teacher lulls his students to sleep.

The main foundation of morality is good will.

The most foolish person is the one who thinks that he loses his originality if he recognizes a truth already recognized by others.

Stupid people and smart people are equally harmless; half-stupid and half-smart people are harmful.

It is much easier to find an error than the truth. The error lies on the surface, and you notice it immediately, but the truth is hidden in the depths, and not everyone can find it.

The dirt glistens while the sun shines.

But does love have anything in common with the mind?

Give a person a purpose to live for, and he can survive in any situation.

Two things are very difficult to avoid: stupidity - if you isolate yourself in your specialty, and unfoundedness - if you leave it.

For me, the conviction of eternal life stems from the concept of activity. Since I work tirelessly until the very end, nature is obliged to provide another form of existence if the current one cannot hold my spirit longer.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than the fact that genius is not immortal.

Until you have made a final decision, you will be tormented by doubts, you will always remember that there is a chance to turn back, and this will not allow you to work effectively. But the moment you decide to devote yourself completely to your business, providence is on your side. Things begin to happen that could not happen under other circumstances... Whatever you are capable of, whatever you dream of, start making it happen. Courage gives a person strength and even magical power. Make up your mind!

If you lose goodness, you will lose a little, if you lose honor, you will lose a lot, if you lose courage, you will lose everything.

Voluntary dependence is the best of relationships. It is impossible without love.

Duty is love for what you command yourself.

Long reflection usually shows that the subject in question is not entirely clear, too hasty actions - that they do not know it at all.

If someone wants to learn all the laws, he will not have time to break them.

If you lose interest in everything, then you lose your memory.

If you really did it, then this is not bragging.

If a smart person does something stupid, then, in any case, it’s not a small thing.

If you want to do something, be able to limit yourself.

If a person studies his body or moral state, he will certainly admit that he is sick.

There are people who never make mistakes because they never think about anything rationally.

A woman has a thousand ways to make us unhappy and only one - happy.

Women are silver bowls in which we put golden apples.

You live, in fact, only when you take advantage of the goodwill of others.

Painting is the most accessible and convenient of the arts.

Believe in life, it teaches better than any books. The theory of sulfur compared to the evergreen tree of life.

Life is the most beautiful of nature's inventions.

Life is a duty, even if it were a moment.

The law is powerful, but the power of need is stronger.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

And a great man is just a man.

Of the two quarreling, the one who is smarter is more guilty.

It’s wonderful to invent yourself, but to know and appreciate what others have found is less than to create?

The name is not a trifle: it’s not for nothing that Napoleon, in order to get a great name, smashed almost half the world to pieces.

Some people climb to a high position in life, like chimney sweeps who crawl through dark, suffocating and dirty chimneys and are completely covered with soot and soot.

A fulfilled duty almost always leaves the consciousness of not being fully fulfilled, because one can never satisfy oneself.

Truth is born as heresy and dies as prejudice.

True virtue never looks back at its shadow—at its glory.

Each age has its advantages and disadvantages compared to both earlier and later years. At forty, I understood many things no less clearly, and in general I was no stupider than now, and in some respects smarter, and yet now, in my eightieth year, I have advantages that I would not exchange for those before.

Every day you should listen to at least one song, look at a good picture and, if possible, read at least some wise saying.

Every writer to a certain extent portrays himself in his writings, often even against his will.

How to know yourself? Not by contemplation, only by actions. Try to do your duty, and you will immediately know yourself.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to manage ourselves.

When a person is mistaken, anyone can notice it; When he lies, not everyone will notice.

When a person is old, he has to do more than when he was young.

Beauty will never understand its essence.

He who was a good citizen of his era has the greatest reason to be a contemporary of all future eras.

Those who think for a long time do not always find the best solution.

Anyone who has reached the heights of education must assume in advance that the majority will be against him.

He who seeks truth is no stranger to error.

He who seeks is destined to wander.

He who does not know foreign languages ​​does not understand anything in his native language.

He who does not think too much of himself is better than he thinks of himself.

He who is born with talent and for talent finds his best existence in it.

He who consciously declares himself limited is closest to perfection.

Anyone who wants to achieve a lot must set high standards.

Who criticizes talent the most? An amateur who has realized his powerlessness.

Literature is only a fragment of a fragment; a tiny fraction of what happened and was said is recorded, a tiny fraction of what is written down is preserved.

Literature deteriorates only to the extent that people become more depraved.

Only value the fruitful.

Only he is worthy of life and freedom, Who goes to battle for them every day.

The best thing history gives us is the enthusiasm it arouses.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is real: mixing the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Love for truth is manifested in the ability to find and appreciate the good everywhere.

Lovers are floating pots knocking against each other.

People suffering from defects, especially in the area of ​​spirit, most often have an exaggerated opinion of themselves. It seems that beneficent nature sends self-esteem to all those whom it has offended with its gifts of a higher order as an additional resource that balances the disadvantage.

People are annoyed that the truth is always simple.

People tend to blaspheme everything that they feel incapable of.

Mannered is a failed ideal, a subjectively conveyed ideal.

A person's manners are a mirror in which his portrait is reflected.

Mathematicians are like the French: everything you say to them, they translate into their language, and it immediately becomes something completely different.

Youth is a disadvantage that quickly passes.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

We are more willing to admit our mistakes in behavior than in thinking.

We're used to people making fun of things they don't understand.

We only know for sure when we know little; As knowledge increases, doubt increases.

It’s never too much to think about what’s important.

It is always better to hope than to despair.

You have to get old to become kinder; I don’t encounter mistakes that I haven’t already made.

People value strength most of all.

The people do not grow old and do not get wiser; people always remain children.

Our passions are like a phoenix. When one passion burns out, another is born from the ashes.

You don’t need to value yourself above your abilities, and you don’t need to humiliate yourself.

Don’t look at the world with annoyance, Don’t expect to correct everyone, Make sure you don’t go astray, And if you stand there, don’t fall.

Ingratitude is a kind of weakness. I have never seen active people ever be ungrateful.

The art of becoming old is small, but the art of overcoming old age is small.

You can't always be a hero, but you can always remain human.

It is not enough to just gain knowledge; I need to find an app for them.

Some poets are like bears who always suck their own paw.

Hatred is an active feeling of discontent; envy - passive. It is not surprising that envy quickly turns into hatred.

Necessity is the best advisor.

Despite all their flaws, people are most worthy of love.

An unhappy man who does not do what he can and takes on what he does not understand.

There is nothing more dangerous to new truth than old error.

There is nothing more dangerous than a fool who is trying to pretend to be smart.

There is nothing more disgusting than most.

There is nothing worse than active ignorance.

There is no stupidity that cannot be corrected with the help of intelligence or chance, and there is no wisdom that cannot be spoiled with the help of stupidity or chance.

A woman should never be credited with the delight inspired by another woman: they know each other too well to consider either one worthy of such exclusive worship.

No one knows what his powers are until he uses them.

Morality is the eternal attempt to reconcile our personal needs.

A limited, honest person often sees through all the tricks of the subtlest businessmen.

Experience is the teacher of eternal life.

Experience is a reliable lamp on the road.

Stop, just a moment! You are wonderful.

The first and last requirement for a genius is love of truth.

Translation: a woman: if she is beautiful, she is unfaithful, if she is faithful, she is ugly.

The translator resembles a pimp who, praising the virtues of a veiled beauty, evokes an irresistible desire to get acquainted with the original.

It is easy to judge by the bride chosen by a man what kind of man he is and whether he knows his worth.

Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows their appearance.

Feat is everything except glory.

Suspicion is the virtue of a coward.

The loss of time is heaviest for those who know more.

An idle life means premature old age.

Prejudice is rooted in character itself and is an integral part of people. Neither evidence, nor common sense, nor reason have the slightest influence on them.

First of all, teach yourself; then you will learn something from others.

Beauty is a manifestation of the hidden laws of nature; without its emergence they would forever remain hidden.

Nature is the only book whose pages are full of deep content.

Nature knows no stop in its movement and punishes all inactivity.

Nature does not have speech organs, but creates tongues and hearts through which she speaks and feels.

Nature does not accept jokes; she is always truthful, always serious, always strict; she is always right; mistakes and delusions come from people.

Nature is the creator of all creators.

The public likes to be treated like women, to whom you only tell what they like to hear.

Reason and conscience cannot be deprived of their rights. They can be lied to, but they cannot be deceived.

It can easily happen to someone who denies the ideal that he will mistake the vulgar for the beautiful.

The best mother is the one who can replace the father for her children when he is gone.

The greatest slavery is to consider yourself free without having freedom.

The funniest desire is the desire to please everyone.

Serious, deep, real will is characterized primarily by its combination with the idea of ​​confidence in achieving a goal.

Tell me who you know and I will tell you who you are. If I know what you're doing, I'll tell you what you'll become.

We are more likely to confess our moral errors, mistakes and sins than our scientific ones.

Tears deprive the weak of their attractiveness, but add an infinite amount of beauty to the strong and strong.

Bold thoughts play the role of advanced checkers in the game; they die, but ensure victory.

Modern poets mix too much water into their ink.

Awareness of one's imperfections brings one closer to perfection.

The ability is assumed in advance, but it must become a skill.

Just try to get around people; pleasing them is an impossible task.

A judge who is unable to punish ends up becoming an accomplice of the criminal.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Talents are formed in peace, characters are formed amid the storms of life.

Those from whom we learn are rightly called our teachers, but not everyone who teaches us deserves this name.

Theory, my friend, is dry, But the tree of life turns green.

Theory in itself is no good; it is needed insofar as it forces us to believe in the connection of phenomena.

Technology combined with vulgarity is the most terrible enemy of art.

Only he is truly happy and great who does not need to obey or command in order to represent something.

Anyone who holds a cause dear must be able to stand up for it, otherwise he is not worthy of showing himself in anything.

He who is in error replaces with ardor what he lacks in strength and truth.

Anyone who makes it a rule to test a matter with a thought, and a thought with a deed, cannot make mistakes, and if he makes a mistake, he will soon fall back on the right path.

The one who asks for advice is stupid, the one who gives it is arrogant. You can only give advice in a matter in which you yourself are going to participate.

He who consciously declares himself limited is closest to perfection.

He is happy who can connect the beginning of his life with its end.

He is the happiest of all, be he a king or a peasant, who has found peace in his own home.

The hardest thing is what seems the easiest: to see with your eyes what is in front of your eyes.

A coward is much more likely to get involved in quarrels than a courageous person.

A coward is incapable of showing love; that is the prerogative of the brave.

A coward only makes threats when he is sure of safety.

He who has science does not need religion. Smart people are the best encyclopedia.

Weak people often have revolutionary beliefs; they think that it would be good for them if they were not controlled, and do not realize that they cannot control either others or themselves.

Anyone who decides to study all the laws will not have time to break them.

Conviction is not the beginning, but the crown of all knowledge.

Smart people are the best encyclopedia.

Facts have unlimited power over the minds of most people, and what seemed impossible is placed alongside the ordinary as soon as it happens.

Character consists of consistently carrying out, in both large and small things, what you feel capable of.

Wanting is not enough, you have to act.

Although the world as a whole moves forward, young people have to start over every time.

What you don't understand doesn't belong to you.

A person, with faith and presence of mind, wins even in the most difficult undertakings, but as soon as he succumbs to the most insignificant doubt, he perishes.

A person can achieve something by purposefully using individual abilities, can achieve a lot by combining several abilities, can create the exceptional and unexpected by combining all properties.

A person cannot live in solitude; he needs society.

A person cannot exist without authority, and yet authority brings with it as many errors as truths. Authority perpetuates transitory concepts and rejects established views.

A person who has an innate talent experiences the greatest happiness when he uses this talent.

A person is determined not only by innate qualities, but also by acquired ones.

A person knows himself only to the extent that he knows the world.

Humanity could achieve incredible success if it were more sober.

What's the hardest thing? – What seems easiest to you: seeing with your eyes what is in front of your eyes.

To live, know how to win.

To understand that the sky is blue everywhere, you don’t need to travel around the world.

Feelings do not deceive; the judgment based on them does.

Humor is one of the elements of genius, but when it prevails, it loses its quality and becomes a surrogate.

Youthful vices should not be preserved until old age, because old age brings its own.

I was not created for this world, where as soon as you leave the house, you end up in complete shit.

I hate bad work as a mortal sin, but most of all I hate bad work in government affairs, since thousands and millions of people suffer from it.

I respect people who know exactly what they want. Most of the troubles around the world come from people not being clear enough about their goals. When they begin to erect a building, they spend too little effort on the foundation for the tower to stand.

Clarity is the correct distribution of light and shadow.

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Worldly wisdom of famous personalities of France

Paul Valery

• C'est du spectateur et non de la vie que l'art est en fait le miroir. – It is the audience that is the mirror, not the art of life.
• Celui qui donne un bon conseil, construit d'une main, celui conseille et donne l'exemple, a deux mains; mais celui qui donne de bonnes leçons et un mauvais exemple construit d'une main et détruit de l'autre. – The one who gives good advice builds with one hand, the one who gives advice and at the same time shows an example builds with both hands; and he who himself warns, but sets a bad example, builds with one hand and destroys with the other.
• Ce n'est pas ce qu'il a, ni même ce qu'il fait, qui exprime directement la valeur d'un homme: c'est ce qu'il est. – Neither what a person owns nor what a person does expresses his dignity, but only who he is.

Honoré de Balzac (Honoré de Balzac )

• Aucun homme n'a pu découvrir le moyen de donner un conseil d'ami à aucune femme, pas même à la sienne. – No man could find a way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even his own.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Saint -Exupéry )

• Il nous faut peu de mots pour exprimer l'essentiel. Il nous faut tous les mots pour le rendre réel. – We need a few words to express the essence. We need all the words to make it a reality.

Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo)

• On deviant moral dès qu'on est malheureux. – We become moralists when we are unhappy.
• La religion est la maladie honteuse de l'humanité. La politique en est le cancer. – Religion is a shameful disease of humanity. Politics is a cancer

Napolé on Bonaparte (Napoleon Bonaparte)

• Le meilleur moyen de tenir sa parole est de nejamais la donner. – The best way to keep your promise is to never make it.
• L'amour est une sottise faite à deux. – Love is a stupidity created by two people.
• Un peu de foi éloigne de Dieu, beaucoup de science y ramène. – A little faith takes you away from God, a lot of science brings you back to him.

Cardinal de Richelieu (Cardinal de Richelieu )

• Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois. – The ability to hide is the skill of kings.
• Il faut écouter beaucoup et parler peu pour bien agir au gouvernement d'un Etat. – You should listen more and talk less to truly act in the interests of the country.
• Les grands embrasements naissent de petites étincelles. – Big fires start from small sparks.

George Sand (George Sand )

• L'esprit cherche et c'est le coeur qui trouve. – The mind searches, and only the heart finds.
• Sans la santé, pas de clairvoyance morale. – Without health there is no moral insight.
• La douleur n'embellit que le coeur de la femme. – Pain adorns only women’s hearts.
• Le souvenir est le parfum de l'âme. – Memories are perfume for the soul.
• L'esprit cherche et c'est le coeur qui trouve. – The mind searches, and only the heart finds.
• Je voudrais mourir par curiosité. “I would like to die of curiosity.”

Guillaume Apollinaire (Guillaume Apollinaire)

• Lorsque deux nobles coeurs se sont vraiment aimes, leur amour est plus fort que la mort elle-meme – When two noble hearts truly love, their love is stronger than death itself
• Chaque baiser est une fleur, dont laracineest le coeur. – Every kiss is a flower whose root is the heart

François de La Rochefoucauld (Francois la Rochefoucauld )

• Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui. “We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.”
• Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons conseils, pour se consoler de n'être plus en âge de donner de mauvais exemples. – Old people like to give good advice to console themselves that they are no longer at the age to give bad examples.

Beautiful expressions and statuses

• Vivre et aimer. - To live and love.
• Aimer c'est avant tout prendre un risque. – To love is, first of all, to take risks.
• Personne n'est parfait, jusqu'à ce qu'on tombe amoureux de cette personne. – A person is not perfect until someone falls in love with that person.
• Ayant risqué une fois-on peut rester heureux toute la vie. – Once you take a risk, you can remain happy for the rest of your life.

• Chaque jour je t'aime davantage, aujourd'hui plus qu'hier mais moins que demain. “You know, today I love you even more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.”
• L'amour aussi bien que le feu, ne peut subsister sans mouvement continuel, et il cesse de vivre des qu'il cesse d'esperer ou de craindre. – True love can be compared to a fire. In both cases, constant movement is required. And in both cases, life can stop if hope or fear disappears.
• Les hommes aiment ce qui les attire; Les femmes sont attirées par ce qu'elles aiment. – Men love what they are attracted to, women are attracted to what they love.
• L'amour est une equation de coeur qui se resoud avec deux inconnu(e)s. – The equation of the heart, which can be solved using two unknowns, is called love.
• L'amour est un jardin, ca commence par une pelle et ca finit par une graine. – Love can be compared to a garden, it all starts with a shovel and ends with planting seeds.
• Cache that vie. - Hide your life.
• Croire à son etoile. - Believe in your star.
• L'homme porte en lui la semence de tout bonheur et de tout malheur. – Man carries within himself the seed of happiness and sorrow.
• Mon comportement – ​​le résultat de votre attitude. – My behavior is the result of your attitude.
• Ma vie, mes règles. - My life my rules.
• L'amour c'est comme les maths: si on ne fait pas attention 1+1=3. – Love is like mathematics: if you are not careful, 1+1=3.
• J'ai été tellement près de lui, que près des autres j'ai froid. “I was so close to him that I freeze around others.”
• Aujourd'hui-nous changeons "demain", "hier"-nous ne changerons jamais. - Today - we will change “tomorrow”, “yesterday” - we will never change.
• Le meilleur moyen de lutter contre la tentation c'est d'y ceder. – The best way to fight temptation is to give in to it.
• Ce qui ressemble a l'amour n'est que l'amour. – What looks like love is love. De l'amour a la haine, il n'y a qu'un pas.
• Un amour, une vie. - One Love - one Life.
• Toute la vie est la lutte. “It’s a struggle all my life.”
• Respecte le passé, crée le futur! – Respect the past, create the future!
• Rejette ce qu'il ne t'es pas. - Throw away what is not you.
• Une seule sortie est la vérité. - The only way out is the truth.
• L'amitie est une preuve d'amour. – Sometimes true friendship can be proof of true love.

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• Rights are not asserted by rebellion.
• Nature is the creator of all creators.
• Everything great shapes a person.
• Hope lives even near graves.
• Scripture is industrious idleness.
• A master is known through self-restraint.
• The thinnest hair also casts a shadow.
• To live without benefit is an untimely death.
• You can only learn what you love.
• It is not enough to just wish: you have to do it.
• Life is the most beautiful of nature's inventions.
• Courage can neither be learned nor unlearned.
• People only recognize those who are useful to them.
• Only in people can a person recognize himself.
• Fashion tolerates extravagance and does not love nature.
• Life is a duty, even if it were a moment.
• Art is a mediator of what cannot be expressed.
• Anyone who does not believe in the Hereafter is dead to this life.
• No one knows what his powers are until he uses them.
• Those who think for a long time do not always find the best solution.
• Of course, think about the “what”, but think about the “how” even more!
• The loss of time is heaviest for those who know more.
• In life, it's about living, not about some outcome of it.
• Only all of humanity together is a true man.
• You can recognize an idea as useful, but not know how to use it.
• There is nothing more dangerous to new truth than old error.
• A person lives a real life if he is happy with the happiness of others.
• It is not enough to just acquire knowledge: you need to find an application for it.
• The best thing history gives us is the enthusiasm it arouses.
• Nature is always right; mistakes and delusions come from people.
• People obey the laws of nature, even when they fight against them.
• When you act among small ones, you become smaller, but among large ones you grow.
• A person's manners are a mirror in which his portrait is reflected.
• Superstition is the poetry of life, so the poet is not ashamed to be superstitious.
• A coward only makes threats when he is sure of safety.
• Love for truth is manifested in the ability to find and appreciate the good everywhere.
• When I don't have new and new ideas to process, I'm definitely sick.
• You can only give advice in a matter in which you yourself are going to participate.
• You can't always be a hero, but you can always remain human.
• Inspiration is not a herring that can be pickled for many years.
• The greatest slavery is to consider yourself free without having freedom.
• Nature knows no stop in its movement and punishes all inactivity.
• You should not drag the mistakes of your youth with you into old age: old age has its own vices.
• It is easy to judge by the bride chosen by a man what kind of man he is and whether he knows his worth.
• “Divide and conquer” is a wise rule, but “unite and direct” is even better.
• Anyone who does not expect to have a million readers should not write a single line.
• Give a person a purpose to live for, and he can survive in any situation.
• High goals, even if unfulfilled, are dearer to us than low goals, even if achieved.
• Nature is the only book that contains deep content in all its pages.
• Some actions are always immoral, no matter what their motives.
• Of all thieves, fools are the most harmful: they simultaneously steal our time and mood.
• Nature does not have speech organs, but creates tongues and hearts through which she speaks and feels.
• A sovereign who does not gather around himself all the gifted and worthy people is a commander without an army.
• The public likes to be treated like women, to whom you tell only what they like to hear.
• Every reasonable thought has already occurred to someone, you just need to try to come to it again.
• Those from whom we learn are rightly called our teachers, but not everyone who teaches us deserves this name.
• Two things are very difficult to avoid: stupidity - if you isolate yourself in your specialty, and unfoundedness - if you leave it.
• We are slaves to things and appear insignificant or important depending on whether they crowd us or leave us enough space.
• How can you know yourself? Only by action, but never by contemplation. Try to do your duty, and you will immediately know yourself.
• Expressing an opinion is like moving a pawn in a chess game: the pawn may die, but the game begins and can be won.
• There is nothing more hateful than the majority: a small number of strong people must show the way, the masses must follow them, unconscious of their will.
• It is much easier to find an error than the truth. The error lies on the surface, and you notice it immediately, but the truth is hidden in the depths, and not everyone can find it.
• Everything in the world is self-deception, and the one who works for the sake of money, honors, or anything else to please others, and not according to his own calling and gravity, is stupid.
• Rarely in the world do you have to decide, either yes or no! Feelings and actions are as diverse as the varieties of noses between aquiline and upturned.
• There are people who count on the shortcomings of their enemies; However, nothing comes of this. I always kept in mind the merits of my opponents and benefited from this.
• Handle the woman with care! She is made of a crooked rib, God was unable to create her straighter; if you want to straighten it, it will break; If you leave her alone, she will become even crooked.
• Most people work most of the time to live, and the little free time they have left is so disturbing to them that they try in every possible way to get rid of it.

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