If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.