More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
