1. Will the shadow be straight if the trunk is crooked?
2. The winds don't blow the way the ships want them to.
3. Every beauty has a flaw
4. Everything that is in abundance gets boring
5. A fool is forgiven seventy mistakes, but a scientist is forgiven none
6. Movement is good, slowness is death
7. The day of joy is short
8. If you don’t want what you want, want what you have.
9. If you become an anvil, be patient; if you become a hammer, hit
10. If you want to know their secrets, ask their children.
11. He who desires good is like him who does good
12. The stomach is the enemy of man
13. A woman without modesty eats without salt
14. You can only pour out of a jug what is in it.
15. An apology will not fill the stomach of a hungry person.
16. Like a drum: the voice is loud, but inside is empty
17. How easy war is for spectators!
18. When a bull falls, many knives rise above him
19. When you lend money, you are a friend, and when you demand it back, you are an enemy.
20. He who is afraid of wolves does not raise sheep
21. Those who are afraid are beaten
22. He who seeks a friend without faults is left alone
23. It’s better to make your son cry than to cry about him later.
24. The mother of a murderer forgets, but the mother of a murdered person does not.
25. Experienced is better than wise
26. Don’t send a young man to get married, or send an old man to buy a donkey.
27. Silence is the outfit of a smart man and the mask of a fool
28. We are eating the same piece, why are you staring at me?
29. We were silent when he entered, so he brought in the donkey
30. For every cow there is a milkmaid
31. Anyone can climb a low wall
32. Won’t sleep hungry, cold and scared
33. Don’t hold others back from what you yourself follow.
34. The one who leads the camel cannot hide
35. Don’t teach an orphan to cry
36. An insignificant person is one who needs scoundrels
37. A beggar owns half the world
38. One hair is not a beard
39. You can’t cover your face with one finger
40. A donkey remains a donkey, even if it carries the Sultan’s treasury
41. Someone who doesn’t eat garlic doesn’t smell like garlic.
42. Pawn, when did you become a queen?
43. Victory over the weak is like defeat
44. Shame is longer than life
45. Loss teaches resourcefulness
46. ​​A wet person is not afraid of rain
47. Against an angry dog, you must release an evil one.
48. Distribute your lunch - there will be left for dinner
49. An old man's child is like an orphan; old man's wife - widow
50. Scold me, but be truthful
51. The heart sees before the head
52. First censure, then punishment
53. A fussy person will not find satisfaction, an angry person will not find joy, a boring person will not find a friend.
54. The knot got the better of the carpenter
55. The well-fed one slowly cuts slices for the hungry
56. Patience is the key to joy
57. The one who invites you for dinner must also take care of the overnight stay.
58. He who comes without an invitation sleeps without a bed
59. He whose house is made of glass does not throw stones at people
60. Three things inspire love: faith, modesty and generosity.
61. A smart thief does not steal from his neighborhood
62. A smart person will understand if you wink, but a fool will understand if you push him
63. What is sweeter than halva? Friendship after enmity
64. Something is better than nothing
65. I am the emir, and you are the emir. Who will drive the donkeys?
66. The egg of a stone cannot be broken.

Craft.

A craft suits every young man

Agriculture.

The potatoes are ripe - get down to business
If there was a cow, there would be milk
The cow is ugly, but she gives milk
Flax doesn't get along with laziness
A good horse warms up from food
The good shepherd does not care about himself - about the flock
The plow shines from work
The swallow makes nests, the bee makes honeycombs
The bee is small, but it works
Like the garden, so are the apples
A wormhole is not a reproach for a red apple
Apples don't grow on pine trees
An apple comes from an apple tree, and cones from a spruce tree.
From a good gardener - nice garden
A good gardener is a large gooseberry
Beans are not mushrooms: if you sow, they won’t sprout
Goodness and the beast understands
And the animal knows who feeds it

About work.

More action - less words
Small words can drown a big deal
A small deed is better than a big idleness

About overcoming difficulties.

The coast is cool, but the fish is good
Difficult is not impossible
What is difficult is forever dear to the heart; what is easy is easy to part with

About negligence.

It's better to sit back than to do things carelessly
Negligence has three brothers: one is “maybe”, the other is “probably”, and the third is “somehow”.

About education.

Alphabet - the wisdom of the step
Don't teach by idleness, teach by handicraft
What Vanya didn’t learn, Ivan won’t learn.

About silence.

Silence is a burden to the talkative
Is good silence not the answer?

Not every shooter who shoots a lot is not every speaker who talks a lot.
A sharp word pricks the heart

About sayings.

Proverb - flower, proverb - berry
A good proverb not in the eyebrow, but right in the eye
Russian proverb is useful for everything

A good word will build a house, but an evil word will destroy a house.
The horse breaks out - you’ll catch up, but you can’t take back the spoken word

About friendship.

Friendship is not a mushroom: you won’t find it in the forest
If you want friendship, be a friend

About love.

You can’t live without love, like without the sun.
Separation is for love what the wind is for fire: it extinguishes little love, and fans the big one even more.

About simplicity.

It is not arrogance that makes a person beautiful, but simplicity
Simplicity, purity, truthfulness - the best beauty

About patience.

Patience is a flower that does not grow in every garden

About respect.

Every person loves respect
To whom is Luka, and to you is Luka Kuzmich; to whom is Luka Kuzmich, and to you is Uncle
Respecting a person, you respect yourself

About children.

Without a father, a naughty son, without a mother, a daughter
All beavers are kind to their own
Children are like flowers: they love care
Feeding children is not breaking a branch
Small children are heavy on the knees, but big ones are heavy on the heart.

About arrogance.

If you carry your head high, you will stumble and fall

About envy.

The envious one is numb to sleep

When am I lazy to work: in winter there is cold, in spring there are puddles, in autumn there is mud, and in summer there is no time

About the disease.

Give free rein to the pain, and it will bend into an arc
Better a small wooden house than a big stone disease
The doctor helps the sick, and the hungry man gets help
It is not the one who lies ill who is sick, but the one who sits above the pain.

About doctors.

Not the doctor who treats, but the one who himself suffered the disease

The first pancake is lumpy, the second with butter, and the third with kvass
Water won't cloud your mind
Mushrooms don't grow on the window
Without cabbage, cabbage soup is not thick
There is no cream without milk
Eat a carrot if there is no apple
Cucumber - even loves that order
It's a small piece of the pie, but it costs a lot of work
Everyone needs lunch and dinner

Animals, nature.

The squirrel carried nuts into the hollow: it will be warm in winter
If the bush were not nice, the nightingale would not build a nest
Rook - spring bird
The tree is planted soon, but not soon the fruits from it are eaten
For the city, every tree is precious
The sandpiper is small, but still a bird
The lily does not grow on the rosehip bush
A good dog does not bark at the wind
Aspen makes noise even without wind
Cat on the stove, dog on the porch
Old dog, may he serve faithfully
The titmouse is small, but its claw is sharp
Know a falcon by its flight, and an owl by its rise
The nightingale is a small bird, but when it sings, the forest trembles
And there is a hollow in the pine tree
The burdock does not grow higher than the ash tree, the rooster does not fly higher than the hawk.

Seasons.

In August the sun is warm and the water is cold
Where there is a river in April, there is a puddle in July
As is the age, so is the man
April with water, and May with grass
In March, the chicken under the threshold will get drunk
October will cover the earth - some with leaves, some with snow.

Natural phenomena.

The wind will not knock down the oak grove
A thunderstorm hits a tall tree
The rain will come - the sun will rise
Well, it's frosty - nails out
From a big cloud, but a small drop

2. Small children are heavy on the knees, but big ones on the heart.

3. Good spouses have two souls, but one will.
Cervantes.

4. A thin face has a thin habit.

5. Everyone hears what they understand.
Goethe.

6. A fool fails because the complex seems simple to him, and a smart person fails because the simple seems complicated to him.
Collins.

7. When it’s fun, you want to live; when you’re sad, you want to die even tomorrow.

8. A noble man knows only duty, a low man knows only benefit.
Confucius.

9. The good and the best soon become boring and become everyday.

10. Other people's stupidity never makes us smart.
Napoleon.

11. There is nothing worse than a fool who wants to play smart.
Goethe.

12. He who knows nothing has nothing to make mistakes.

13. What we sin in our youth must be made up for in our old age.

14. It is dangerous to deceive the state, but there is no point in deceiving nature.

15. My wealth is evident in the fact that I don’t have it.
Ranevskaya.

16. An intelligent woman can behave however she pleases.

17. It is difficult to speak intelligently, it is even more difficult to remain silent intelligently.

18. There are many people who read a lot so as not to think about anything.

19. Anyone who thinks to do good does not have time to do it.

20. The ability to be old is an art; not everyone knows how to master it.
Francois.

21. Living with the person you love is just as difficult as loving with the person you live with.

22. Better a little and good than a lot and bad.
Tolstoy.

23. You cannot love either the one you are afraid of or the one who is afraid of you.

24. A well-built brain is worth more than a well-filled brain.

25. Silence sometimes hides the cruelest criticism.

26. Men are interested in what people think about them, women are interested in what they say about them.

27. The one who has nothing more to say speaks the most.
Tolstoy.

28. A fool speaks, but there is an even greater fool who will admire him.

29. The rarer the pleasure, the more pleasant it is.

30. Individualism is an emphasized weakness.

31. We live too short and die too long.

32. Self-control is the key to possession.

33. It is easier to find ten thousand soldiers than one general.

34. There are more fools in the world than scammers, otherwise they would have nothing to live with.

35. Women are never as strong as when they arm themselves with weaknesses.

36. Anyone who boasts that he had many friends actually had none.

37. As you get older, you acquire experience that you cannot take advantage of.

38. He who considers himself limited is closest to the truth.

39. Half-truths are more difficult to expose than pure lies.

40. Don’t be sad that people don’t know you, be sad that you don’t know people.
Confucius.

41. Where the mind is lacking, everything is lacking.

42. Being too clever is the most shameful kind of stupidity.

43. You have to be so proud that you are above your pride.

44. Money is equally annoying when you have it and when you don’t have it.
Ranevskaya.

45. To gain recognition you must, no, you must, die.
Ranevskaya.

46. ​​Most fools read little, but there is another category - these are complete fools who study a lot.

47. Enjoy present pleasures so as not to harm them in the future.

48. In order not to be guilty, you need to be right a hundred times.

49. Many receive awards not according to their abilities, but according to their needs.
Ranevskaya.

50. My God, how old I am! I still remember decent people.
Ranevskaya.

51. A fool who admits that he is a fool is no longer a fool.
Dostoevsky.

52. Youth is happy because it has a future.

53. Laziness is like rust - it corrodes.

54. A short mind has a long tongue.

55. An angry fist does not hit a smiling face.

56. A modest person is the one who annoys others the least.
57. If you only tell the truth, you will not need to remember anything.
Mark Twain.

58. Knowing a friend too much or too little interferes with getting closer.
L. Tolstoy.

59. It’s not the one who doesn’t know who is stupid, but the one who doesn’t want to know.

60. Men say whatever they want about women, and women do whatever they want to them.

61. The true age is not written in the passport, but on the walls of the blood vessels.

62. Nothing empties the mind more than empty talk.

63. My wealth apparently lies in the fact that I don’t need it.
Ranevskaya.

64. I am grateful to those who honor me and twice grateful to those who refuse this honor.
Ranevskaya.

65. There are no dark ideas, only dark people.

66. There are limits to reading, but not to the mind.
Dumas.

67. What we know is limited, but what we don’t know is unlimited.

68. Good upbringing reliably protects against people who are poorly brought up.
69. There are boundaries for a genius, but not for the mind.
Dumas.

70. Fighting yourself is the strongest opponent.

71. ...half-smart and half-stupid people are equally dangerous.
Goethe.

72. To be completely frank is as undignified as nakedness.

73. When a person has no means, it is better that his life does not catch the eye.
Ranevskaya.

74. The best questions are those to which you can find answers.

75. If a fool were not afraid to say something stupid, he would not be a fool.

76. A deceiver ultimately deceives himself.

77. Don’t always say what you mean, but always know what you are saying.

78. When we care about the happiness of others, we find our own.

79. Happy is he who is happy at home.
L. Tolstoy.

80. The worst desire is to please absolutely everyone.

81. Better a terrible end than endless horror.
82. The wife is not the property of the husband, the husband is not the property of the wife.
83. Imagine that you are washing, and an excursion comes there.
Ranevskaya (apparently complaining about how difficult it is to be popular).

84. You don’t have to fight your shortcomings with the whole world; you can fight back.

85. Wrinkles should only mark those places where smiles used to be.
Mark Twain.

86. Stupidity, even having achieved its goal, is never satisfied.
Cicero.

87. When a person has a life, it is better not to be conspicuous.

88. Why is a person who has nothing to say silent?

89. I was smart enough to live my life stupidly.
Ranevskaya.

90. Of the two arguing, the one who is smarter is to blame.

91. The greatest poverty is poverty of the heart.

92. Wisdom has an edge, but stupidity is limitless.

93. Accept as truth what you cannot change yourself.

94. Do not do good, you will not receive evil.
95. Respect can only be for the strong, only compassion for the weak.

96. ...break a mirror to avoid meeting a fool.
(It’s a pity that the author is not known to me).

97. If a sharp word left marks, we would walk around all dirty.

98. Falling in love is happiness, love is pain.

99. Sleep before the children, eat before the teeth.

100. By revealing the hidden corners of our soul, we risk becoming the object of universal ridicule, and, as has happened more than once, our revelation will be a voice crying in the wilderness.
Stephen King (And why, strictly speaking, not - after all, the most popular author of the last century).

101. It is not actions that are a consequence of a way of thinking, but a way of thinking that is a consequence of character. The truth has nothing to do with it. Truth doesn't exist at all.
S. Maugham.

102. Sin is an empty prejudice, which it is time for a free person to get rid of. In the fight against the human personality, society uses three weapons: law, public opinion and conscience; the law and public opinion can be outwitted, but conscience is a traitor in its own camp.
S. Maugham.

103. Right is always on the side of the strong.
S. Maugham.

104. Love has teeth and they bite, love inflicts wounds that never heal, and no words can make these wounds heal. There is truth in this contradiction: when the wounds of love heal, love itself is already dead. The kindest words can kill love.
S. King.

105. When you want to consult with someone about your business, pay attention first of all to how he arranges his affairs.
Socrates.

106. An angry person is always full of poison.
Confucius.

107. Each person is a reflection of his own inner world. As a person thinks, so is he in life.
Cicero.

108. Frivolity is characteristic of a blooming age.
Cicero.

109. Each age has its own characteristics.
Cicero.

110. Only the family, as a whole, represents the individual.
Hegel.

111. Never lose patience - this is the last key that opens doors.
Saint-Exupery.

112. He who firmly knows what to do tames fate.
N. Miklukha-Maclay.

113. The effect of pressure depends on the material: some are compressed under pressure, others are straightened.
S. Lec.

114. Weakness of character is the only flaw that cannot be corrected.

115. Thrift, kindness and naivety are a vice for men, but a virtue for women.
A. Hasdai.

116. Good people become more from practice than from nature.
Democritus

117. If you are bitter, you will be crushed, but if you are sweet, you will be swallowed.
Proverb.

118. Give a person everything he desires, and at that very moment he will feel that this is not everything.
I. Kant.

119. Only very few live for today; most are preparing to live later.
J. Swift.

120. At twenty years old - a peacock, at thirty - a lion, at forty - a camel... at seventy - a monkey, at eighty - nothing.
B. Gracian.

121. People usually believe that it is better to be mistaken in the crowd than to follow the truth alone.
K. Helvetius.

122. Many people mistake their memory for intelligence and their views for facts.
P. Masson.

123. A person is nothing more than a series of his actions.
G. Hegel.

124. It is better to suppress the first desire than to satisfy everything that follows it.
B. Franklin.

125. He is prudent who does not grieve about what he does not have, and, on the contrary, is glad about what he has.
Democritus

126. Just as medicine does not reach its goal if the dose is too large, so does blame and criticism when they exceed the measure of justice.
A. Schopenhauer.

127. We rarely fully understand what we really want.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

128. Under strong passions, only a weak will is often hidden.
V. Klyuchevsky.

129. Only man is absent-minded.
V. Nabokov.

130. God can forgive us our sins, but the nervous system never.
W. James.

131. Everyone is as unhappy as he considers himself unhappy.
Leonardi.

132. The most incurable grief is imaginary grief.
M. Ebner-Eschenbach.

133. He who suffers earlier than necessary suffers more than necessary.
Seneca.

134. Endure without complaint what cannot be changed.
Pubilius Syrus.

135. We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
T. Fuller.

136. Hell and heaven are in your own soul.
S. Marechal.

137. Sitting on a pin, you forget about your toothache.
A. Bennett.

138. The weak in spirit always see everything through a mourning veil.
A. Dumas is the father.

139. We create rules for others, exceptions for ourselves.
Lemel.

140. Love is the sister of lofty thoughts.
S. Shchipachev.

141. Everyone sees what you appear to be, but few feel what you are.
N. Machiavelli.

142. A person’s character can never be understood more accurately than by the joke he takes offense at.
G. Lichtenberg.

143. Betrayals are most often committed not out of deliberate intention, but out of weakness of character.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

144. An old man, if he does not shine with intelligence, is always arrogant, arrogant and intransigent.
J. de Labruere.

145. He who asks timidly will ask for refusal.
Seneca.

146. He who respects himself inspires respect in others.

147. Change your attitude towards the things that bother you, and you will be safe from them.
Marcus Aurelius.

148. Youth changes its tastes due to the ardor of feelings, but old age keeps them unchanged out of habit.
F. de La Rochefoucauld

149. It is not the eyes that see, but the person; it is not the ear that hears, but the soul.
Proverb.

150. A person is like a brick: when offended, he becomes hard.
B. Shaw.

151. It is much easier to show wisdom in the affairs of others than in your own.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

152. You are forever responsible for those you have tamed.
A. Saint-Exupery.

154. The strongest is the one who controls himself.
Seneca.

155. Everyone praises their friendship, but no one dares to praise their intelligence.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

156. When grief comes to you, look around and be comforted: there are people whose lot is even heavier than yours.
Aesop.

157. Laughter is the sun: it drives away winter from the face of man.
V. Hugo.

158. Our actions are more often determined by our character than by our interests.
R. Hall.

159. Even the truth should be kept silent if it brings misfortune.
An ancient Indian saying.

160. Just as there is a disease of the body, there is also a disease of the way of life.
Democritus

161. We are all smart when it comes to giving advice, but when it comes to avoiding mistakes, we are nothing more than children.
Menander.

162. It is better to face evil face to face than to think about it.
Menander.

163. Love grows from long expectations.
And it quickly goes out, having received its due.
Menander.

164. Character is nothing more than a long-term skill.
Plutarch.

165. The less a person needs, the closer he is to the gods.
Socrates.

166. Gratitude is a sign of the nobility of the soul.
Aesop.

167. When you don’t know words, you have no way to get to know people.
Confucius.

168. There is no sin heavier than passions.
Lao Tzu.

169. Activities leave an imprint on character.
Ovid.

170. Excessive confidence usually leads to trouble.
Nepot.

171. Death itself is less painful than waiting for it.
Ovid.

172. An evil tongue is a sign of an evil heart.
Pubilius Syrus.

173. The bow breaks from tension, the spirit from relaxation.
Pubilius the sir.

174. Master your passions, otherwise your passions will take over you.
Epictetus.

175. A smart person fights passion, a fool becomes its slave.
Epictetus.

176. True love helps to bear all the burdens.
F. Schiller.

177. Life turns and sways a man more abruptly, but it presses a woman harder.
D. Pisarev.

178. A woman’s honor is more important than a man’s.
A. Schopenhauer.

179. Live not only in yourself, but also in others.
V. Solovyov.
180. Culture begins with the individual.
I. Kant.

181. A family is an organic whole.
Hegel.

182. Marriage follows love, just like smoke follows fire.
N. Chamfort.

183. An ungrateful son is worse than a stranger: he is a criminal, since a son has no right to be indifferent to his mother.
G. Maupassant.

184. Remember that your children will treat you the same way you treat your parents.
Thales.

185. Treat your parents the way you would like your own children to treat you.
Socrates.

186. Marital love multiplies the human race, friendly love improves it, and immoral love corrupts and humiliates it.
F. Bacon.

187. In one hour of love - whole life
O. Balzac.

188. When you lose the love of a woman, you can only blame yourself for your inability to preserve this love.
N. Dobrolyubov.

189. Those who want new paths should not go for a walk, but to work.
V. Veresaev.

190. A smart person differs from a fool in that when he gets angry, the smart person becomes a fool, and the fool becomes smart.
V. Klyuchevsky.

191. Great things are not done right away.
Sophocles

192. Unhappy is the man who does not do what he can and takes on what he does not understand.
Goethe.

193. Wanting is not enough, you have to act.
Goethe.

194. Some people are like livers: they quickly go out of fashion.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

195. Getting by with a small amount of money is also a talent.
J. Renard.

196. Just thinking is not enough: you need to think about something specific.
J. Renard.

197. Kindness is in fashion now, but fashion will not last long.
J. Renard.

199. ...And if youth knew, and if old age could....

200. Even the Gods are powerless against stupidity.
F. Schiller.

201. Where there is thought, there is power.
V. Hugo.

202. The most pleasant words for us are those that give knowledge.
Aristotle.

203. Speak to people according to their understanding.
Saadi.

204. Fantasy is higher than knowledge.
A. Einstein.

205. Talent is a matter of quantity.
J. Renard.

206. He wore his laurel wreath askew.
J. Renard.

207. I wonder what an eye does when covered with an eyelid.
J. Renard.

208. It is necessary that the word fights thought, but does not trip it up.
J. Renard.

209. The wisdom of people is not proportional to their experience, but to their capacity for it.
B. Shaw.

210. Consciousness of one's powers increases them.
L. de Vauvenargues.

211. If you don't believe in yourself, you can't be a genius.
O. de Balzac.

212. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
V. Blake.

213. The truth is worth the fact that we could not find it for several years.
J. Renard.

214. If you don’t act, the chamber will be of no use.
Sh. Rustaveli.

215. It’s never too early to ask yourself: am I doing business or trifles?
A. Chekhov.

216. Try to do great things, but don’t promise anything great in advance.
Pythagoras.

217. Where morals are without enlightenment or enlightenment without morals, it is impossible to enjoy happiness and freedom for long.
Pythagoras.

218. For a sage, a fact is true poetry and the most beautiful of fairy tales.
R. Emerson.

219. You can recognize a true genius by the fact that when he appears, all the stupid people conspire against him.
R. Emerson.

220. Even if there is no benefit for a person to lie, this does not mean that he is telling the truth: they lie simply for the sake of lying.
B. Pascal.

221. Neither art nor wisdom can be achieved if we do not study.
Democritus

222. Everyone loves to unravel others, but no one likes to be unraveled.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

223. Love for a neighbor is something different than love for a neighbor.
T. Gobbi.

224. I condemn any violence in the education of a young soul.
M. Montaigne.

225. There is only one love, but there are thousands of crafts for it.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

226. There are no people who, having stopped loving, would not begin to be ashamed of their past love.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

227. We cannot love again those whom we once really stopped loving.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

228. There is more selfishness in jealousy than love.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

229. As long as people love, they forgive.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

230. There is such love that in its highest manifestation leaves no room for jealousy.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

231. Any passion pushes you into mistakes, but love pushes you into the stupidest ones.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

232. There are different medicines for love, but not a single one is reliable.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

233. All violent passions are unbecoming for women, but love is less suitable for them than others.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

234. When a woman falls in love for the first time, she loves her lover; in the future she loves only love.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

235. Vanity more often forces us to go against our inclinations than reason.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

236. Sometimes great talents are formed from bad qualities.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

237. People slander not so much out of a desire to harm, but out of vanity.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

238. There are people who are destined to be fools: they do stupid things not only because at will, but also by the will of fate.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

239. Stubbornness is born of the limitations of our mind: we are reluctant to believe what goes beyond our horizons.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

240. Only great people have great vices.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

241. Is it really impossible to invent a means that would make women love their husbands?
J. de La Bruyère.

242. A woman whom everyone considers cold has simply not yet met a person who would awaken love in her.
J. de La Bruyère.

243. True friendship contains a charm that is incomprehensible to ordinary people.
J. de La Bruyère.

244. Love begins with love; even the most ardent friendship can produce only the faintest semblance of love.
J. de La Bruyère.

245. It is difficult to distinguish from true friendship those relationships that we establish in the name of love.
J. de La Bruyère.

246. We truly love only the first time; all our subsequent hobbies are no longer so reckless.
J. de La Bruyère.

247. Women do not know the middle in anything: they are either much worse or much better than men.
J. de La Bruyère.

248. If money brings happiness, then give it to your neighbor.
J. Renard.

250. Honor is the soul of marital consent.
D. Fonvizin.

251. It is difficult to make a man happy by condemning a woman to suffering.
V. Hugo.

252. All men have shortcomings. For women, these are weaknesses.
E. Furmanov.

253. Women live longer than men because they never stop taking care of their health.
E. Furmanov.

254. “The titmouse also set fire to the sea, and someone believed her for a minute.”

255. The honeymoon began with a week of demonstrating feminine character.
E. Furmanov.

256. Truthfulness everywhere, and especially in education, is the main condition.
L. Tolstoy.

257. In order for the upbringing of children to be successful, it is necessary that the people raising them, without ceasing, educate themselves.
L. Tolstoy.

258. Sincerity is a great and rare virtue, and we forgive it many weaknesses and sins.
G. Thoreau.
259. Nature said to the woman: be beautiful if you can, wise if you want, but you must certainly be prudent.
P. Beaumarchais.

260. Do not judge a person by what views he holds, but judge by what he achieved with their help.
G. Lichtenberg.

261. There is no defeat until a person himself admits defeat.
Daniel.

262. A person’s character is best revealed when he speaks about the character of another.
J. Richter.

263. You shouldn’t start getting involved in politics if you don’t have thick skin like a rhinoceros.
F. Roosevelt.

264. When a wise man dies, it is difficult to replace him, but when a king dies, all Israel, without exception, is ready to ascend the throne.
Jewish proverb.

265. Happiness has no tomorrow; he doesn’t even have yesterday; it does not remember the past, does not think about the future; he has a present - and that is not a day - but a moment.
I. Turgenev.

266. We evaluate everything that fate sends us depending on our mood.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

267. A person is never as happy or as unhappy as it seems to him.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

268. Some people repel, despite all their merits, while others attract, despite all their shortcomings.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

269. The gratitude of most people is nothing more than a hidden expectation of even greater benefits.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

270. Our pride suffers more when our tastes are criticized than when our views are condemned.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

271. If we were not overcome by pride, we would not complain about the pride of others.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

272. Pride is characteristic of all people; the only difference is how and when they manifest it.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

273. The equanimity of the sages is just the ability to hide their feelings in the depths of their hearts.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

274. A person’s happiness and misfortune depend as much on his character as on his fate.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

275. Everyone complains about their memory, but no one complains about their mind.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

276. From the very birth of a person, the extent of his virtues and vices is apparently predetermined.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

277. Doing good is easier than being kind.
J. Wolfram.

278. If you cannot improve yourself, then how can you improve other people.
Confucius.

279. Nothing softens the heart so much as the consciousness of one’s guilt, and nothing petrifies it so much as the consciousness of one’s rightness.
Talmud.

280. Passions are the enemies of peace, but without them there would be no art or sciences in this world, and everyone would sleep naked on a pile of their own dung.
A. France.

281. No person desires to have passions; for who wants to put chains on himself when he can be free?
I. Kant.

282. All passions are good when we control them; everyone is bad when we obey them.
J. J. Rousseau.

283. It often happens that it is better not to notice an insult than to take revenge for it later.
Seneca.

284. Passions are the winds that blow the sails of a ship... sometimes they sink it, but without them it could not sail.
Voltaire.

285. An example is more powerful than a threat.
K. Corneille.

286. A good deed is accomplished with effort; but when the effort is repeated several times, it becomes a habit.
L. Tolstoy.

287. In education, the whole point is who the educator is.
D. Pisarev.

288. Advice is like castor oil: you give it well, but it’s damn unpleasant to take.
B. Shaw.

289. Beatings and abuse are like opium: sensitivity to them quickly dulls, and doses have to be increased.
G. Beecher Stowe.

290. Don’t start anything in anger! He is a fool who boards a ship during a storm.
I. Gaug.

291. If you don’t have bad thoughts, you won’t have bad deeds.
Confucius.

292. If you go too far, the most pleasant things will become the most unpleasant.
Democritus

293. What is natural is not shameful.
Seneca.

294. There is no love more sincere than the love of food.
B. Shaw.

295. Be attentive to your thoughts, they are the beginning of actions.
Lao Tzu.

296. Envy is nothing other than hatred itself, since someone else's misfortune causes pleasure, and, conversely, someone else's happiness causes displeasure.
Spinoza.

297. A person is like a fraction: its number is what he is, and its denominator is what he thinks about himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
L. Tolstoy.

298. When a small man conceives a great enterprise, he always ends up reducing it to the level of his mediocrity.
N. Bonaparte.

299. Our shortcomings grow on the same soil as our merits, and it is difficult to snatch one away while sparing the others.
I. Turgenev.

300. People who have no shortcomings have very few virtues.
A. Lincoln.

301. You should not visit your friend too much, lest he become fed up with you and hate you.
Ahikar.

302. In a dispute, insolence and eloquence often win, rather than truth.
Menander.

303. Just as rust eats up iron, so the envious is their own disposition.
Antisthenes.

304. Happy is not the one who seems so to someone, but the one who feels so.
Pubilius Syrus.

305. The greatest fruit of justice is serenity.
Epicurus.

306. Each of us is half a person.
Plato.

307. Being famous is ugly... shameful, meaning nothing, being a byword on everyone's lips...
Parsnip.

308. Every woman can and should be liked.
J. J. Rousseau.

309. Nothing makes life more bearable than activity directed towards one goal.
F. Schiller.

310. The most important task of civilization is to teach a person to think.
T. Edison.

311. What is poorly understood is often attempted to be explained using words that are not understood at all.
G. Flaubert.

312. He who has nothing to hope for has nothing to despair of.
Seneca.

313. I consider someone free who hopes for nothing and fears nothing.
Democritus

314. To be satisfied with your situation, you need to compare it with a worse situation.
B. Franklin.

315. For their disasters, people tend to blame fate, the gods, and anything else, but not themselves.
Plato.

316. Waiting for happiness is a worse misfortune than misfortune itself.
T. Tasso.

317. To find peace in both worlds, follow two rules: be generous with friends, and restrained with enemies.
Haviz.

318. Scorpio does not sting out of anger: such is his nature.
Saadi.

319. How few friendships would survive if everyone suddenly found out what friends were saying behind his back, although just then they were sincere and impartial.
B. Pascal.

320. We do not need the help of friends so much as the confidence that we will receive it.
Democritus

321. If you don’t want your friend to notice your hump, don’t look at his warts yourself.
Horace.

322. Truth, legality, virtue, justice, meekness - all this can be combined in the concept of “honesty”.
Quintilian.

323. If you sow an action, you will reap a habit; if you sow a habit, you will reap a character; if you sow a character, you will reap a destiny.
English proverb.

324. He who shouts in anger is funny, but he who is silent in anger is terrible.
Abay.

325. The best horses come out of the wildest foals, if only they are properly raised and ridden.
Plutarch.

326. The wheel of fate turns faster than the wings of a mill; and those who were on top yesterday have been thrown into the dust today.
M. Cervantes.

327. Fear and hope can convince a person of anything.
L. Vauvenargues.

328. Be firm in the pursuit of the goal and soft in the methods of achieving it.
Acquaviva.

329. Small sorrows make a person soft, large ones make him callous and ferocious.
A. Chenier.

330. Everything passes in due time for those who know how to wait.
O. Balzac.

331. The revolution is prepared by geniuses, carried out by fanatics, and crooks enjoy the fruits.
Bismarck.

332. If a person is able to listen to an insult with a smile, he is worthy of becoming a leader.
N. Bratslov.

333. There is no great mind without an admixture of madness.
Seneca.

334. Praise does good people better, worse bad.
T. Fuller.

335. Think slowly, but act decisively; yield generously, but resist firmly.
C. Colton.

336. Difficulties generate in a person the abilities necessary to overcome.
W. Phillips.

337. The Russian man harnesses slowly, but drives quickly.
Bismarck.

338. A person can recognize his abilities only by trying to apply them.
Seneca the Younger.

339. Everyone is worth as much as what he is busy with is worth.
M. Aurelius.

340. Why do people follow the majority? Is it because it is right? No, because it is strong.
B. Pascal.

341. Women admire handsome men, adore smart men, fall in love with kind men, but willingly marry only strong men.
V. Klyuchevsky.

342. A man listens with his ears, a woman with her eyes; the first to understand what is being said to him, the second - to please the one who is talking to her.
V. Klyuchevsky.

343. There are people so stingy, as if they were going to live forever, and so wasteful, as if they were going to die tomorrow.
Aristotle.

344. Greed for money, if it is insatiable, is much more painful than need, for the more desires grow, the greater needs they give rise to.
Democritus

345. Happy is the one who, with small means, enjoys a good mood; unhappy is the one who, with large means, does not have spiritual joy.
Democritus

346. Gold is tested with fire, a woman with gold, and a man with a woman.
Seneca.

347. Jealousy is the art of causing oneself even more harm than others.
A. Dumas (son).

348. Test the temper of your friends in various ways, especially look at how someone is when they are angry.
Theognis.

349. Ambition in itself may be a vice, but it is often a source of dignity.
Quintilian.

350. Shamelessness is a vice.
B. Mandeville.

351. Beauty, physical attraction and benevolence are inseparable.
D. Hume.

352. Happy circumstances exist for each of us, but not everyone knows how to use them.
N. Chernyshevsky.

353. Absolute truth is known in love.
P. Florensky.

354. Family is the most aristocratic form of life.
V. Rozanov.

355. A woman is not only able to understand self-sacrifice: she herself knows how to sacrifice herself.
I. Turgenev.

356. Love without respect can neither go far nor rise high; it is a one-winged angel.
A. Dumas (son).

357. The more a woman tries to compete with a man, the more she loses his love and devotion.
V. Shwebel.

358. A woman who attacks a man like a man is defeated as a woman even before the man begins to defend himself.
V. Shwebel.

359. One must enter life not as a cheerful reveler, as into a pleasant grove, but with reverent awe, as into a sacred forest, full of life and mystery.
V. Veresaev.

360. With your love, with the memory of her
I am stronger than all the kings in the world.
V. Shakespeare.

361. Parents love their children with an anxious and condescending love that spoils them. There is another love, attentive and calm, which makes them honest. And this is the true love of a father.
D. Diderot.

362. It should be remembered that from experience we must extract only the wisdom contained in it - and no more.
M. Twain.

363. For most people, lethargy and laziness are stronger than even their ambition. Hence the success of fools.
A. Maurois.

364. I swear on my honor, this is stupid enough to make a fool smart.
G. Lichtenberg.

365. It is not enough to count the impressions of experience; they must be weighed and compared, thought through and purified.
M. Montel.

366. Expect poison from standing water.
V. Blake.

367. The eagle never wasted so much time as when he agreed to learn from the crow.
V. Blake.

368. It is useful to know a few wise rules that could always serve you, than to learn many things that are useless to you.
Seneca.

369. Knowing good things is more important than knowing a lot.
J. J. Rousseau.

370. It is wonderful to invent oneself, but to know and appreciate what others have found is less than to create?
I. Goette.

371. Knowledge is always preceded by an assumption.
A. Humboldt.

372. True imagination requires brilliant knowledge.
A. Pushkin.

373. One must gain enough wisdom to forget about wisdom.
D. Feuchtwanger.

374. Do not strive to know everything, lest you become ignorant of everything.
Democritus

375. He who cannot concentrate within himself or is carried away by something, then when seeing, he will not see, when he hears, he will not hear, and when he tastes, he will not discern the taste.
Confucius.

376. moderation happy people stems from the peace of mind bestowed by unfailing good fortune.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

377. The great surprises us, the insignificant repels us, habit reconciles us with both.
J. de La Bruyère.

378. Children have neither a past nor a future, but, unlike us adults, they know how to use the present.
J. de La Bruyère.

379. He who does not tolerate the bad character of his neighbor does not have a very good character: let us remember that both gold and small change are required in circulation.
J. de La Bruyère.

380. To laugh at a smart person is the privilege of fools, who in society play the same role as jesters at court, that is, none.
J. de La Bruyère.

381. Only those who have been waiting or are waiting for an inheritance from elderly relatives know how dearly they have to pay for it.
J. de La Bruyère.

383. Most people judge their neighbors by their wealth or worldly success.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

384. No matter how we explain our grief, most often they are based on deceived self-interest or wounded vanity.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

385. There are few unattainable things in the world; If we had more persistence, we could find a way to almost any goal.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

387. We cannot imagine what our passions can push us to do.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

388. Old age is a tyrant who, on pain of death, prohibits us from all the pleasures of youth.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

389. Where there is hope there is also fear: fear is always full of hope, hope is always full of fear.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

390. Not a single flatterer flatters as skillfully as selfishness.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

391. Passion often turns an intelligent person into a fool, but no less often endows fools with intelligence.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

392. You can cure recklessness, but you cannot straighten a crooked mind.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

393. By admitting to minor shortcomings, we thereby try to convince others that we do not have major ones.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

394. The mind and heart of a person, as well as his speech, retain the shade of the country in which he was born.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

395. To become a great person you need to be able to skillfully use everything that fate offers.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

396. Many people, like plants, are endowed with hidden properties; Only chance can discover them.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

397. Only a coincidence of circumstances reveals our essence to others and, most importantly, to ourselves.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

398. There cannot be order in the mind and heart of a woman if her temperament is not in harmony with them.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

399. This is why we are indignant at people who deceive us, because they consider themselves smarter than us.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

400. Narrow-minded people usually condemn everything that goes beyond their understanding.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

401. You can give another reasonable advice, but you cannot teach him reasonable behavior.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

402. You can outwit one person, but you cannot outwit everyone in the world.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

403. A wise man is happy, content with little, but for a fool nothing is enough; that's why all people are unhappy.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

404. It is better to kill a desire in the bud than to later satisfy all the desires born of it.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

405. We scold ourselves only in order to be praised.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

406. Nowhere can we find peace for what lies beyond our horizons.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

407. Self-confidence is the basis of our confidence in others.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

408. Truth does not suffer at all from the fact that someone does not recognize it.

409. If we did not flatter ourselves, we would not be spoiled by the flattery of others.
F. de La Rochefoucauld.

410. We should look back only for the sake of learning lessons from past mistakes and benefiting from good purchased experience.
D. Washington.

411. If doing was as easy as knowing what to do, then chapels would become temples, and poor huts palaces.
V. Shakespeare.

412. You are like ice: until you melt, you are strong as a stone, and once you melt, there will be no trace of you left.
I. Turgenev.

413. The only animal that is redder is man, and must blush in some situations.
M. Twain.

414. Life is a game: only a good actor can afford to lose it.

415. ...It’s like health: when you don’t notice it, it means it’s there.
I. Turgenev.

416. Love is still selfishness.

417. He who is afraid of many must be afraid of many.

418. A person is not a nut: you can’t figure it out right away.
Russian proverb.

419. Not only did you fall, but you will also be stepped on.
Japanese proverb.

420. Two people sit on a quiet donkey.
Armenian proverb.

421. There is no arrow that pierces a stone, but there is water that wears it away.
Korean proverb.

422. You can’t even cut off a donkey’s tail in public: some will say it briefly, others – long.
Armenian proverb.

423. A thousand mice cannot replace one elephant.
Chinese proverb.

424. The destiny of fate is revealed only to the gods.
Egyptian saying.

425. He who sees too far is not calm in heart. Do not be sad about anything in advance and do not rejoice at what does not yet exist.
Egyptian saying.

426. It is easier to stop the rain than a girl getting married.
Abkhazian proverb.

427. The husband should be deaf and the wife blind - and there will be complete harmony in the house.
English proverb.

428. An owl is blind during the day, a crow is blind at night, and lovers are blind both day and night.
Indian proverb.

429. A woman hides her love for forty years, but she will not hide her hatred and disgust for even one day.
Arabic proverb.

430. Love is like soup: the first sip is very hot, but then it gets colder and colder.
Spanish proverb.

431. A camel does not see its own hump, it only sees the baby camel’s hump.
Greek proverb.

432. A hot-tempered person will never know the truth.
Ancient Egyptian saying.

433. A sensitive person is like an icicle: warm him up and he will melt.
Russian proverb.

434. Each person’s destiny is created by his morals.
Latin proverb.

435. Reason without courage is a woman’s property; courage without reason is the quality of a beast.
An ancient Indian saying.

436. It’s better for me not to have a cow, as long as my neighbor doesn’t have two.
Armenian proverb.

437. He who has bile in his mouth, everything is bitter.
Russian proverb.

438. The fox even counts chickens in a dream.
Russian proverb.

439. Every disadvantage contains some advantages, and every advantage contains some disadvantages.
French proverb.

440. The adornment of a person is wisdom, the adornment of wisdom is tranquility, the adornment of tranquility is courage, the adornment of courage is gentleness.
An ancient Indian saying.

441. For the greedy, there is no good and no good, there is no glorious and shameful, there is no good and evil - there is only profitable and unprofitable.
An ancient Indian saying.

442. If you are wise, do not contradict the rich man, the ruler, the child, the old man, the ascetic, the sage, the woman, the fool and the teacher.
An ancient Indian saying.

443. A woman eats twice as much as a man, she is four times more cunning than him, six times more determined, and eight times more voluptuous.
Ancient Indian aphorism.

444. Coquetry with a loved one replaces a woman’s declaration of love.
Ancient Indian aphorism.

445. Insatiable ambition darkens a person’s mind, and he does not notice the dangers that threaten him.
Aesop.

446. Do not fall in love with women - women despise lovers. Only date women who are in love themselves, and avoid indifferent ones.
Ancient Indian aphorism.

447. Let the god of love himself get her - she will desire another man, such is the nature of all women.
Ancient Indian aphorism.

448. Look at the mother, take the daughter.
Armenian proverb.

449. A tree is supported by its roots, and a person is supported by its relatives.
Abkhazian proverb.

450. Mother’s anger is like spring snow, and a lot of it will fall, but it will soon melt.
Russian proverb.

451. Real love is recognized in misfortune.
Latin proverb.

452. Twins from the same mother, but different.
Tatar proverb.

453. Mother's affection has no end.
Russian proverb.

454. Years are like grief: they lay furrows.
Russian proverb.

455. He who was brought up in childhood will not be disgraced when he becomes a father.
Tatar proverb.

456. Getting married is easy, but sewing a shirt for your husband is difficult.
Azerbaijani proverb.

457. Married in a hurry, but for a long time.
Russian proverb.

458. Everyone is born, but not everyone is fit to be a human being.
Russian proverb.

459. Not a beautiful day without the sun, and sweet is life without small children.
Russian proverb.

461. He who wants to know a lot needs to sleep less.
Russian proverb.

462. Speak, think, sit down, look around.
Russian proverb.

463. Life is a deception. We are placed in it without asking our consent, and we are thrown out against our will. As soon as it seems to us that we have gained something, that “something” disappears. And we love only ghosts, and everything else for us is a mystery that we will never solve.
Schmidt. "Homage to Eve"

464. Life is not a joke or fun, life is not even pleasure, life is hard work.

465. The danger of a reasonable person is that he is most susceptible to the temptation of falling in love with the unreasonable.
F. Nietzsche.

466. Whoever does not live in the sublime, like at home, perceives the sublime as something terrible and false.
F. Nietzsche.

467. People who strive for greatness are, as usual, evil people: this is their only way of enduring themselves.
F. Nietzsche.

468. People of quality strive for little.
F. Nietzsche.

469. Those who have hitherto loved a person most have always caused him the greatest pain; like all lovers, they demanded the impossible from him.
F. Nietzsche.

470. He who wants to become a leader of people must, for a good period of time, be known among them as their most dangerous enemy.
F. Nietzsche.

471. If you have the good fortune to remain dark, then you can take advantage of the benefits provided by darkness, and especially “talk all sorts of things.”
F. Nietzsche.

472. There is nothing good in herds, even when they run after you.
F. Nietzsche.

473. In weariness, concepts that have long been overcome take hold of us.
F. Nietzsche.

474. ...Love is not a tender violet, love is a weed that blooms even in the dark.

475. You can seduce any woman if you have the patience to sit and listen to her complaints until four in the morning.
Martin Cruz Smith.

476. We live too short and die too long.

477. In grief, in cold, in everyday shame,
During bereavements and when you feel sad,
Seem smiling and simple -
The highest art in the world.
K. Simonov.

478. Death is placed at the end of life in order to more conveniently prepare for it.
Kozma Prutkov.

479. A weakening memory is like a lamp going out.
Kozma Prutkov.

480. What we have we don’t keep; when we lose it, we cry.
Kozma Prutkov.

481. Don’t joke with women: these jokes are stupid and indecent.
Kozma Prutkov.

482. Man is bifurcated from below, and not from above, so that two supports are more reliable than one.
Kozma Prutkov.

483. Spit in the eyes of the one who says that you can embrace the immensity.
Kozma Prutkov.

484. Blacks blackens with benefit, but an evil person with pleasure.
Kozma Prutkov.

485. It happens that zeal overcomes reason.
Kozma Prutkov.

486. Love your neighbor, but do not give yourself to him in exchange.
Kozma Prutkov.

487. Not all tickling is fun!
Kozma Prutkov.

488. When speaking with a cunning person, weigh your answer.
Kozma Prutkov.

489. Aces don't win every game.
Kozma Prutkov.

490. Taken aback by fate, don’t despair.
Kozma Prutkov.

491. What seems best to everyone is what he has a desire for.
Kozma Prutkov.

492. A champagne cork, flying up noisily and falling just as instantly - this is a pretty picture of love.
Kozma Prutkov.

493. Do not resort to tickling, wanting to amuse an acquaintance - another will call you ignorant for this.
Kozma Prutkov.

494. From small causes there are very important consequences; So, biting off a hangnail caused cancer to my friend.
Kozma Prutkov.

495. A person’s head is placed upside down so that he doesn’t walk upside down.
Kozma Prutkov.

496. At the bottom of every heart there is sediment.
Kozma Prutkov.

497. If they don't agree on probability theory, they're in trouble.
Kozma Prutkov.

498. Girls in general are like checkers: not every one succeeds, but everyone wants to get into the kings.
Kozma Prutkov.

499. A dog sitting on the hay is harmful. A chicken sitting on eggs is healthy. From a sedentary life they become fat: so, every money changer is fat.
Kozma Prutkov.

500. Every human head is like a stomach: one digests the food that enters it, and the other becomes clogged.
Kozma Prutkov.

501. When starting your career, do not waste, O young man, precious time!
Kozma Prutkov.

502. The present is a consequence of the past, and therefore constantly turn your gaze to your behinds, thereby saving yourself from significant mistakes.
Kozma Prutkov.

503. If the shadows of objects did not depend on the size of these latter, but had their own arbitrary growth, then, perhaps, soon there would not be a single bright place left on the entire globe.
Kozma Prutkov.

504. Reason primarily guides the actions of any mind.

505. None of us is the beginning, we are all a continuation.
Dementyev.

506. We must learn to live, and not adapt.

507. Everyone wants to feel like a hero.

508. Jealousy is a monster that conceives and gives birth to itself.
Cervantes.

509. Jealous people always look at telescope which turns small things into big ones, dwarfs into giants, guesses into truth.
Cervantes.

510. Children are small - they won’t give you food, children are big - they won’t let you live.

511. We do not believe a liar even when he tells the truth.
Cicero.

512. A helpful fool is more dangerous than an enemy.

513. Pushkin is our everything, but who are the rest?

514. No matter what life has taught me, I still believe in miracles.
Tyutchev.

515. Emotion is a bad advisor.

516. It took me so much effort to grow old that I don’t want to get younger.
Ranevskaya.

517. Every person during his life at least once had the intention of committing suicide or at least rushed around with the annoying thought of suicide.
Galsworthy.

518. Is laziness the mother of all vices? No, not laziness, but stupidity, and it is impossible to imagine what human stupidity can lead to - no imagination can keep up...
Bunin.

519. You have to be very smart to understand stupid things; you needed smart people like Alexei Tolstoy and Zhemchuzhnikov to write Kozma Prutkov.
Bunin.

520. Memory is an unreliable thing.
Bunin.

521. All the wisest advice was given to us thousands of years ago. We must learn to use them. For example, don’t take everything to heart. After all, in essence, “everything is vanity.”

522. A close neighbor is better than distant relatives. Other relatives only until a rainy day.

523. A son-in-law is kind to his daughter, but a son is hateful to his daughter-in-law.

524. New law Archimedes: the liquid immersed in the body will go to school in seven years.
The author of the joke is unknown (a little vulgar, but overall it’s true!).

525. Freedom is not an abstraction, it is something that a person, having received, must “spend” and realize.
Turgenev.

526. He who spits on the stars hits himself in the face.
Eastern proverb.

527. Life is a struggle with ghosts under the arches of the heart and mind. To create poetically means to judge oneself.
G. Ibsen.