Mikhail Lermontov

"A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished."

"The soul wants to wander in green fields."

"I love the music of human words."

"Believe nothing that you hear and half of what you see."

"A man's worth is measured by his enemies."

"I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no one could have endured the world if love were not so refreshed by hope."

"Life is a terrible, senseless game."

"The most miserable of all men is he who makes a trade of falsehood."

"Why do we need peace at all if life itself is a war?"

"I am never bored; one cannot be bored by life itself."

"In Russian, there is no word for freedom."

"The great thing about humanity is that it writes poetry and music, it composes and invents. To do this, we need solitude."

"Time destroys the most solid empires."

"There is nothing more insulting to a man of intelligence than to be governed by a fool."

"What is evil? The absence of good."

"The human heart is an abyss."

"I love the northern sky and its melancholy."

"Beauty is dangerous like poison."

"A poet is born, not created."

"We are all guilty of the evil we cause."

"Love is like a disease that strikes when least expected."

"The most unbearable pain is the pain of loneliness."

"I cannot understand how a man can live without longing for something."

"Knowledge is power, but it is also responsibility."

"Fear is the most powerful weapon."

"The only true immortality is in the memory of others."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"Change is the only constant in life."

"Education is the foundation of all achievements."

"Friendship without sincerity is a flower without perfume."