Book: An open letter to the young man about science to live

To despise money easily person rich or the one who is deprived of needs.

Almost every man is a person; the difficulty is to keep their individuality, without becoming either banal or thoughtless.

The main thing - to give all powers to the chosen field of work, and you are word will get out. Because perfection is rare.

Goal in life is to acquire to themselves immortal glory... It is to turn every day into a small eternity.

All your life you will meet people that are surprised to say: "what he disliked me? I did nothing to him". Wrong! You inflicted the most grievous offense: you are a living denial of his nature.

Life is a masquerade. Do I have to always wear the same mask? It depends on the mask from you. If the mask doesn't suit you, if it bothers you, if you feel that it forces you to play the role for which you are created, try to replace it with another. A lot of them. Here's a great mask of a very promising politician; here is the mask of the artist, which best suited the bright plaid sport shirt with unbuttoned collar; but the mask of the future medics with piercing eyes from under his glasses. There is still time to choose. But be careful! The mask itself is going to rule the roost. Other masks will accept you for who you appear to be. Going to the life ball, choose a suitable mask.

I saw firsthand how wealth destroyed the talent of one musician and artist. This fate is avoided only by those who are richer and continues to work as well as in times of poverty.

The nature of creativity is that the more unhappy and poorer the artist, the higher he soars in his works. Would Balzac Balzac without poverty, creditors, debtors ' prison, the moneylenders? During his hard life he had to face with the rarest of human types, which are rich, safely protected in his beautiful mansion secretaries and servants, can never know.

The billionaire may be full of good intentions, but he loses a sense of reality. Success makes him too trusting, he expands the business, but will rock the house of cards suddenly collapses. Never be too rich. For the wealthy, like the conqueror, the main thing is to be able to stop. It is a rare gift.

Remember: a good heart, lively mind, liking is more important than a pretty face. Wrote that beauty promises happiness, but the beauty of the body, without the advantages of soul deceiving your expectations.

The danger of our time is not that on the ground there are a bunch of immoral people, adventurers, bandits and rogues. These dregs of society have always existed; there were even that from the bottom came out great people. A particular danger of our time is that now the writers sincerely believe that, in justifying the amorality, the softness, the law of the jungle and ugly art, act courageously. Meanwhile, there is nothing heroic; it is the most vulgar conformism. The danger, according to one of your peers, is that "instead of philosophical teachings we offer spells, instead of the literary school rules of punctuation, instead of a religious revival - abbots-analysts, instead of mysticism is absurd, not happiness, comfort".

Today you assert that the old form dilapidated that a new painting heralds the end of all art, that traditional architectural forms has no place in modern cities, a new novel proclaims the death of the novel, what to write a story with a plot - a crime that because of the eroticism was no longer needed in the description of feelings, words, Words.

We have the physical means to destroy civilization and the human race; we have no moral means to prevent this destruction. People with terrible kind of shake Intercontinental missiles, and where is the guarantee that they eventually will not prefer to destroy all and all, if only not to lose its prestige. One of the challenges of your generation (if you can) is to put an end to these stupid childish antics. The heroes of Homer could have plenty to quarrel with each other - God bless them, they decided questions of honor in a duel, risking only your own life.

Always deal with those who incite war, against whom it was directed. However, if the war yet to begin, feel free to go into battle, be a good soldier, fight without fear and hatred. "Vice unleashes war; virtue fights for what's right."