There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!