First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.