Author of quotes: Nikolai Semenovich Leskov

But when do ladies have other culprits besides their husbands?

Let everyone believe as he judges, but for us it is all the same in what ways the Lord will seek a person and from what vessel he will give to drink, as long as he seeks and quenches his thirst for unanimity with the fatherland.

As long as you remember evil, evil is alive, and let it die, then your soul will live in peace.

A person's knees are the first tool: as you fall on them, the soul now flutters up.

- You, brother, do not understand anything: everything is good one with the other.

If when there is not enough wine, the trouble is not yet great, you can endure, but there is something sweeter than both wine and honey.

You never neglect anyone, because no one can know why someone is tormented and suffering by what passion. We, the obsessed, suffer, but it is easier for others. And you yourself, if you have any grief from any passion, do not arbitrarily throw it away, so that another person does not pick it up and suffer; but look for a person who would voluntarily take this weakness from you.

From time to time it became a little easier for him, then again the blues and anxiety heaped on him - he left the house at the wrong time and returned at the wrong time, was angry about trifles and did not pay attention to things of great importance.

Society most of all needs the healing of its spirit, and this depends less on the authorities than on us.

A man in a vest over a warm sheepskin coat is a fuss, because a vest over a sheepskin coat is not needed, just as it is not necessary to follow us and glorify us. Vanity darkens the mind.

Promises are made for reasons - and are fulfilled according to circumstances.

He who gives off his friends in offense, in that very light in his eyes melts.

Faith is a luxury that is dear to the people.

Who has no faith, so is nothing to do.