An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

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

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt