“It will do more good if you give way to a dog than if it bites you. Even if you kill a dog, you will still be bitten.”
“If good people, guided by their wisdom, deem it necessary to keep me in the background, well, then so be it. I know disappointment too well to be upset about it.”
“Many are able to withstand the blows of fate, but if you want to truly test a person's character, give him power.”
“No one will admire a person who has stumbled. But the one who was able to rise is worthy of admiration.”
“A hypocrite is a man who killed both parents and asks for leniency, citing the fact that he is an orphan.”
“People who have no flaws have very few virtues.”
“Most people are only as happy as they decide to be.”
Translated from Russian · source: wisdomlib.ru