Author of quotes: Vasily Klyuchevsky. Page 4

The smart thing in life is death, for only it corrects all the mistakes and stupidity of life.

Much easier to become a father than to be them.

To be able to be evil, you have to be good, otherwise you're just ugly.

The sport became the favourite object of meditation and will soon become the only method of thinking.

Openness is not gullibility, but only a bad habit to think out loud.

Who's laughing, he's not mad, because to laugh is to forgive.

A woman seduces a man much less guilty than the man, seductive woman, because it is more difficult to become vicious than him to remain virtuous.

In science it is necessary to repeat lessons, it is good to remember them; in morals it is necessary to remember the mistakes, not to repeat them.

History teaches us that even those who are not learning. She projivaet for ignorance and neglect.
(History is not a teacher but an overseer, magistra vitae: it teaches nothing, but only punishes for ignorance of lessons.)

A good man is not one who is able to do good, and whoever is not able to do evil.

Nature - power over oneself, talent is power over others.

To warm Russia, some are ready to burn it.

A good woman, married, promises happiness, evil is waiting for him.

When the cat wants to catch a mouse, she pretends to be a mouse.