There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.
Resentment makes anything possible.
Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.