I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.