A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.