One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.