Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!