If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.