Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.