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Cowardice excites in us only contempt.
Love is like an epidemic disease, the more we fear it, the more vulnerable we are to it.
Society lives by recognized truths.
When science reaches a peak, it opens up a vast prospect of a further path to new peaks, new roads are opened along which science will go further.
Beauty, true happiness and true heroism do not need big words.
Fools notice only the faults of people and do not pay attention to their virtues. They are like flies that strive to sit only on the inflamed part of the body.
The real mark by which a true sage can be recognized is patience.
The certainty that you are loved softens the suffering of separation. The last “sorry” even loses its bitterness when it still has an echo of love.
Whatever I compose, whatever I invent, it will always be below the actual possibilities. The time will come when the achievements of science will surpass the power of imagination.
Despair is the greatest of our delusions.
Labor and pleasure are the two essential conditions of human life—personal and social.
Justice is truth in action.
The ignoramuses are like tambourines: they make a great noise because of their emptiness.
The family is a society in miniature, on the integrity of which the security of the entire large human society depends.
No one will look for hidden virtues.
The labor and strength of those who lived before us live in us. May, in turn, future generations be able to live thanks to our work, thanks to the strength of our hands and our minds. Only in this case we will adequately fulfill our purpose.
To laugh at smart people is the privilege of fools.
Rudeness is spiritual weakness.
The variety of human relations, which are imprinted in chased folk sayings and aphorisms, is boundless.