With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

And where love ends, hate begins

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.