Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
A liar ought to have a good memory.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.