23 Quotes by Leo Nikolaevich

The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beautiful and his life bad.

There are two methods of human activity -- and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, there are two kinds of people. One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowle

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

Moral perfection is beyond reach but this is the law of human life

I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love.

If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of

He was nine years old and quite a child, but he knew his soul, it was dear to him, and he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and never let anyone enter his heart without the key of love.

Laws are rules, made by people who govern by means of organized violence, for non-compliance with which the non-complier is subjected to blows, to loss of liberty, or even to being murdered.

Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.