Character: Pechorin, Grigory. Page 7
About ego! you are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to lift the earthly sphere!..
Two friends one is always the servant of the other, although often neither of them it's not recognized.
Ought to give justice to women: they have the instinct of beauty of the soul.
Rock in women, as in horses, is a great thing: a discovery, which belongs to Young France. She, that is, breeding, not Young France, for the most part denounced in the gait, in the hands and feet; the nose means a lot. The right's nose in Russia are rarer than a small foot.
I admit, I have a violent prejudice against all blind, crooked, deaf, dumb, legless, armless, humpback and so on. I've noticed that there's always some strange relationship between the appearance of man and his soul, as if with the loss of a limb, the soul loses some power of feeling.
Glory - good luck, and to achieve it, you just have to be nimble.
In the hearts of simple sense the beauty and grandeur of nature are stronger, move a hundred times than us, enthusiastic tellers in words and on paper.
Away from society and closer to nature, we involuntarily become children; all acquired falls away from the soul, and she is again like what they once were, and, right, will there ever be again.
I was involuntarily struck by the ability of the Russian person to apply to the customs of the peoples among whom he happens to live; I don't know, worthy of censure or praise a quality of mind, but it proves the incredible flexibility and the presence of that clear common sense which pardons evil wherever it sees the need or the impossibility of its destruction.
