Nikolai Gogol

"True peace is found in acceptance."

"Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"The beauty of life is in its unpredictability."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."

"The greatest journey is the one within."

"The more I live, the more I realize that I understand nothing at all."

"We are all inclined to believe what we wish."

"One should not speak of rope in the house of a hanged man."

"How unwilling man is to admit his limitations."

"The world is a strange place; strange people appear in it."

"In the depths of my heart, I still believe in human decency."

"We laugh at the follies of others, blind to our own."

"Art is the gateway to the infinite."

"Mediocrity everywhere—this is the curse of our time."

"The pen is a powerful weapon when wielded by truth."

"No one can escape their own nature."

"In every person lives a spark of something divine."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it also breeds forgetfulness."

"We create our own demons through our inaction."

"The mask we wear becomes our true face."

"Remember always that the crowd is the worst possible judge of truth."

"How foolish to believe ourselves unchangeable."

"Beauty without purpose is merely decoration."

"I have learned that patience is the greatest virtue."

"The soul grows through suffering and struggle."

"Words can build empires or destroy them entirely."

"Time is a thief that steals our youth unnoticed."

"Every man carries within him the seeds of greatness."

"Solitude reveals what society conceals."

"The greatest tragedy is to live without passion."