You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.