It is very difficult to tell the truth.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.