Ivan Panin Quotes

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

It needs as much generosity to take as to give.

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

We are not men, but promises of men.

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.