Author of quotes: Vasily Klyuchevsky

Everyone wants to speak out and everyone wants to convince themselves of their own thoughts.

The struggle of the Russian autocracy with the Russian intelligentsia is the struggle of a lascivious old man with his quirks, who knew how to give birth to them, but did not know how to educate them.

Theatrical tears wean from worldly ones.

The difference between the clergy and other Russian estates: there are many drunkards here, few sober ones there.

From the fight for personal interests produced not the best possible, and vozmojnyi of the best order.

Habits of fathers, and good and bad, into faults of children.

He's too smart to be happy, and too unhappy to be angry.

When you do not understand, whether the person is good or evil, we can safely say that he is unhappy.

To have an impact on people we must think only about them, forgetting about yourself, not to remember them when you need to remind them about yourself.

To be useful for people who have nothing to use from them.

The charity will give birth to more needs than it resolves needs.

Passions become vices, when turned into habits, or virtues when counteract habits.

Justice - valor of the elect of nature, truthfulness is the duty of every decent person.

To watch people so despise them that deprive themselves of the opportunity to understand them; to understand them, we must live with them, despising their way of life, and not their own.