Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.