Help in preparing for the exam. Honor and dishonor

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“You won’t get rich by trading in honor,” said the great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in the 19th century. And now is the 21st century, but the relevance of this statement is obvious: in our century there are people for whom the word "honor" is an empty phrase. Fortunately, there are those who “preserve honor from a young age”, choosing the path of truth and justice, realizing that the path of dishonor is a road to nowhere. I am convinced of the correctness of this point of view fiction. (68 words) I am sure that civil servants, who are endowed with power, like no one else, must abide by the code of honor. They are, after all, servants of the people. Alas, sometimes this does not happen. Let's remember Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol's comedy The Inspector General. Many modern officials in their actions and behavior are similar to Gogol's heroes. So, the mayor Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky is a bribe taker who began his service from the lower ranks, but managed to rise to the post of mayor. He knows how to adapt to any situation ("the transition from fear to joy, from rudeness to arrogance is quite fast") and to benefit from everything for himself. It doesn't matter to him how things really go in the city. In the first place - personal gain, as well as the good opinion of the authorities, because the mayor is "a smart person and does not like to miss what floats into his hands." The hero knows that his word is the last thing that will happen, as he says. Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky treats his subordinates condescendingly, with them he is often rude and often unfair. But with superiors, Anton Antonovich - courtesy and attentiveness itself. For this man, the word "honor" means nothing. Agree, in Anton Antonovich you can easily recognize the features of some of our mayors ... Fortunately, those who sincerely love their Motherland, the nature around them, who are ready to give their lives for harmony to reign in the world, do not want to trade in honor. I think that everyone knows Yegor Polushkin, the hero of Boris Vasiliev's story "Don't Shoot the White Swans". He is in love with the forest, with the river, with nature in general. He is characterized by poetic feelings, the ability to empathize. Yegor is surprisingly receptive to everything beautiful, he is used to doing any work conscientiously. He does not know how, and does not want to be cunning, tricky, to extract his own benefit from everything. Egor realized that he must fight for the preservation of natural beauty, for the awakening of the deaf to this beauty. human souls. He is trying to awaken in people a craving for the good and the beautiful, and consequently, the conscience that is dormant in some. Egor expresses his moral credo as follows: “We are with you in a good deed, and a good deed asks for joy, and not gloom. Malice breeds malice, we often remember this, but the fact that good is born from good is not very good. But this is the main thing!” People like Yegor will never trade in honor! (342 words) And in conclusion, I would like to say that the concept of "honor" includes the desire for moral ideal. Unfortunately, many people have forgotten how to see the difference between the words "honor" and "disgrace." It must be understood: the loss of honor leads to negative consequences: either a person is disappointed in himself, or becomes an outcast in society and harms people. But as long as a person is alive, honor is also alive. The famous American philosopher Benjamin Franklin very accurately said this: “Real honor is the decision to do under all circumstances what is useful to most people.” (494 words) Angelina Yashchenko, 11th grade

"Honor and dishonor"

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The direction is based on polar concepts related to the choice of a person: to be true to the voice of conscience, to follow moral principles or go the way of betrayal, lies and hypocrisy. Many writers focused on depicting various manifestations of a person: from loyalty moral rules before various forms compromise with conscience, up to a deep moral decline of the individual.

Honor is that high spiritual force that keeps a person from meanness, betrayal, lies and cowardice. This is the core that strengthens the individual in choosing an act, this is a situation where conscience is the judge. Life often tests people, putting them before a choice - to act honorably and take a hit on themselves, or to be cowardly and go against conscience in order to gain benefits and get away from troubles, possibly death. A person always has a choice, and from his moral principles depends on how he does it. The path of honor is difficult, but the retreat from it, the loss of honor, is even more painful. Being a social, rational and conscious being, a person cannot but think about how others treat him, what they think about him, what assessments are given to his actions and his whole life. At the same time, he cannot help thinking about his place among other people. This spiritual connection of a person with society is expressed in the concepts of Honor and Dignity. “Honor is my life,” Shakespeare wrote, “they have grown together into one, and to lose honor is equal to the loss of life for me.” Moral decay, the fall of moral principles leads to the collapse of both the individual and the whole nation. Therefore, the importance of the great Russian classical literature which is the moral foundation for many generations of people.

Aphorisms and sayings famous people:

Do not gain honor by vanity, or by the beauty of clothes or horses, or by adornment, but by courage and wisdom. Theophrastus

Every courageous, every truthful person brings honor to his homeland. R. Rollan

· Shame and honor are like a dress: the more shabby, the more careless you treat them. Apuleius

· True honor cannot tolerate untruth. G. Fielding

· The value and dignity of a person are contained in his heart and in his will; here is the basis of his true honor. Michel de Montaigne

· Never leave the road of duty and honor - this is the only thing in which we will draw happiness. Georges Louis Leclerc

The word "honor" is used infrequently in our time. And "disgrace" is so very rare. However, the meanings of these words are known to every person. Some people can talk about honor for hours, while others use this word only in quotes. But there is one feature that unites absolutely everyone in this matter, be it a peasant, a soldier or a criminal - each of them perceives it in his own way. An act that is virtuous for some becomes immoral for others. On this moral boundary, the crossroads between honor and dishonor is born.

The path of honor and dishonor is the independent choice of each person. By setting life priorities, we determine what is fair for us and what is not. In fact, we choose our conscience, because conscience is a set of principles by which a person lives.

Dostoevsky wrote: "Selling honor does not make you rich."

By betraying his principles, a person shows other people his ability to lie. Such people are shunned, and sometimes it is very difficult to return the “good name”. Let's not go far for an example and consider Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment. Here Sonya Marmeladova sells her honor in the most literal sense. She is despised by everyone except her family and Raskolnikov. Her "craft" is immoral, but all her actions are aimed at the benefit of her family. Therefore, there is much more honor in her than, for example, in Luzhin, whose philosophy was closed on his own person, which led him to shame and dishonor.

In the story " Captain's daughter"Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin utters a phrase that is wonderful within the framework of our topic: "Take care of your dress again, and honor from a young age." In the story itself, this principle is demonstrated everywhere - from the beginning of the adventures of the protagonist, the young sergeant Pyotr Grinev, where he honestly gives back the money lost in billiards, to the final scenes of the work. The moral conflict between Shvabrin and Grinev perfectly shows how different the views of two different people can be. Their judges were the most different people: Masha, for whose favor they fought, Captain Mironov and his wife, Pugachev ... They all agreed on the absolute honesty of the protagonist and the equally absolute dishonesty of Shvabrin.

Let's compare our honest, according to the authors, people: Sonya, who received a "yellow ticket" for the sake of her loved ones, and Grinev, who defends his love for Masha for most of the story. They have a lot common features: stamina, kindness, honesty, faith in one's own rightness. Apparently, it was these character traits that helped our heroes act according to their conscience. So, they will help real people do the same.

Arguments for the final essay.

1. A. Pushkin"The Captain's Daughter" (As you know, A.S. Pushkin died in a duel, fighting for the honor of his wife. M. Lermontov in his poem called the poet "a slave of honor." A quarrel, caused by the offended honor of A. Pushkin, led to death greatest writer. However, Alexander Sergeevich kept his honor and good name in people's memory.

In his story "The Captain's Daughter" Pushkin portrays Petrusha Grinev with high moral character. Peter did not tarnish his honor even in those cases when it was possible to pay for it with his head. He was a man of high morals worthy of respect and pride. He could not leave Shvabrin's slander on Masha unpunished, so he challenged him to a duel. Grinev retained his honor even under pain of death).

2. M. Sholokhov"The fate of man" (V short story Sholokhov touched on the topic of honor. Andrey Sokolov - a simple Russian man, had a family, loving wife, children, your home. Everything collapsed in an instant, and the war was to blame. But nothing could break the real Russian spirit. Sokolov managed to endure all the hardships of the war with his head held high. One of the main episodes that reveal the strength and steadfast character of a person is the scene of the interrogation of Andrei Muller. The weak, hungry soldier surpassed the fascist in fortitude. The refusal of the offer to drink to the victory of German weapons came as a surprise to the Germans: "Yes, I, a Russian soldier, should drink to the victory of German weapons?" The fascists appreciated the courage of the Russian soldier, saying: "You are a brave soldier. I am also a soldier and respect worthy opponents." The firmness of Sokolov's character aroused the respect of the Germans and they decided that this man deserved to live. Andrei Sokolov personifies honor and dignity. He is ready to give his life for them.

3. M. Lermonotov. The novel "A Hero of Our Time" (Pechorin knew about Grushnitsky's intentions, but nevertheless did not wish him harm. An act worthy of respect. Grushnitsky, on the contrary, committed dishonorable act, offering Pechorin an unloaded weapon for a duel).

4. M. Lermonotov"Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilievich ...". (Lermontov tells about the permissiveness of people in power. This is Kiribeevich, who encroached on his married wife. Laws are not written for him, he is not afraid of anything, even Tsar Ivan the Terrible supports him, so he agrees to fight with the merchant Kalashnikov. Merchant Stepan Paramonovich Kalashnikov is a man of truth, faithful husband And loving father. And even despite the risk of losing to Kiribeevich, he challenged him to a fistfight for the honor of his wife Alena. By killing the guardsman, Merchant Kalashnikov aroused the anger of the tsar, who ordered him to be hanged. Of course, Stepan Paramonovich could have yielded to the tsar, avoided his death, but for him the honor of the family turned out to be more precious. On the example of this hero, Lermontov showed a real Russian character common man honor - strong in spirit, unshakable, honest and noble.)

5. N. Gogol Taras Bulba. (Ostap accepted death with dignity).

6. V.Rasputin"French lessons". (The boy Vova with honor passes all the tests in order to get an education, to become a man)

6. A. Pushkin"Captain's daughter". (Shvabrin - a prime example a man who has lost his dignity. He is the complete opposite of Grinev. This is a person for whom the concept of honor and nobility does not exist at all. He walked over the heads of others, stepping over himself for the sake of his momentary desires. Popular rumor says: "take care of the dress again, and honor from a young age." Once you have tarnished your honor, you are unlikely to ever be able to restore your good name.)

7. F.M. Dostoevsky"Crime and Punishment" (Raskolnikov is a murderer, but the dishonorable act was based on pure thoughts. What is it: honor or dishonor?)

8. F.M. Dostoevsky"Crime and Punishment". (Sonya Marmeladova sold herself, but she did it for the sake of her family. What is it: honor or dishonor?)

9. F.M. Dostoevsky"Crime and Punishment". (Dunya was slandered. But her honor was restored. Honor is easy to lose.)

10. L.N. Tolstoy"War and Peace" (Becoming the owner of a large inheritance, Bezukhov, with his honesty and faith in the kindness of people, falls into the nets set by Prince Kuragin. His attempts to seize the inheritance failed, then he decided to get money in another way. He married the young man to his daughter Helen , who had no feelings for her husband. In the good-natured and peace-loving Pierre, who learned about Helen's betrayal with Dolokhov, anger boiled and he challenged Fedor to battle. The duel showed Pierre's courage. Thus, using the example of Pierre Bezukhov, Tolstoy showed the qualities that cause respect. And the miserable intrigues of Prince Kuragin, Helen and Dolokhov brought them only suffering. Lies, hypocrisy and sycophancy never bring real success, but they can tarnish the honor and lose the dignity of a person).

Vauvenargues Luc de Clapier de (1715-1747), French writer moralist.

Whether a person is poor or rich, he will never become virtuous and happy if, by the will of fortune, he turns out to be in the wrong place.

Wealth makes few friends and many enemies.

Be careful with a person who carefully enters into all your affairs, but keeps quiet about his affairs.

There are people whose talents would never have been discovered if they hadn't also had shortcomings.

In friendship, marriage, love, in a word, in any human relationship, we always want to win, and since the relationships between friends, lovers, brothers, relatives, etc. are especially close and diverse, we should not be surprised what awaits us in them. most of all ingratitude and injustice.

In the healthy the conscience is presumptuous, in the weak and unfortunate it is timid, in the indecisive it is restless, etc. It is a voice that obeys the feeling that dominates us and the opinions that govern us.

In any case, the so-called decent people win as much as anyone else.

There is always a shade of falsehood in a thought, calculated from the very beginning for publication.

In our day, by bad language, many people understand a simple statement of the truth, without jokes, witticisms and embellishments.

In old age, the number of friends does not increase: all losses are then irretrievable.

In theory, nothing is simpler than equality; in fact, there is nothing more impracticable and more chimerical.

Great people are sometimes great even in small things.

Human claims are great, but the goals are insignificant.

Great philosophers are geniuses in the field of reason.

A great statesman is one who leaves behind great and useful monuments for mankind.

At all times there have been half-wits who have been forced to seek glory the only way they can - challenging other people's glory, but when people of this kind begin to set the tone, this means that the age is degenerating, for such things can only happen where great people have bred.

All people are born sincere and die liars.

Everything that is unfair offends us if it does not directly benefit us.

Total more bugs done by people who act on mature reflection.

A high position sometimes eliminates the need to have also talents.

You can't fake genius.

The main duties of people are based on their vulnerability to each other.

The fool who great memory, full of thoughts and facts, but he does not know how to draw conclusions and conclusions - and this is the whole point.

It is foolish to caress ourselves with the hope that we are able to convince others of what we ourselves do not believe.

Pride is the comforter of the weak.

Even a young woman has fewer admirers than a rich man who is famous for a good table.

Two-minded people easily change their rules.

For a high-ranking person, there is nothing easier than to appropriate the knowledge of others.

It takes less effort to become dexterous than it seems to be.

Sometimes a little joke is enough to bring down a big arrogance.

Human dignity is gems, which play more beautifully in the frame of modesty.

There are fewer fools than people think: people simply do not understand each other.

If even foresight cannot make our life happy, then what can we say about carelessness!

If the advice of passion is bolder than the advice of reason, then passion gives more strength to carry it out than reason.

If you want to express serious thoughts, first stop talking nonsense.

If a person is no longer liked by women and knows this, he is quickly cured of the desire to please.

There are people who treat morality as some architects treat houses: comfort comes first.

There are people who read only to find mistakes in the writer.

A woman should not claim intelligence, a king should not claim eloquence or a poetic gift, a warrior should not claim subtlety of feelings or courtesy - such is the common court; the inability to see beyond one's own nose multiplies these rules and laws, for the more limited the mind, the more it seeks to put limits on everything. But nature laughs at our childish demands, she breaks out of the gorges of prejudice and creates learned women and kings of poets, despite all the barriers we have erected.

Women and young people know how to appreciate only those to whom they have an inclination.

Women are unable to comprehend that there are men who are indifferent to them.

The hardest of all is the one who is soft out of self-interest.

The quickness of the mind depends on the speed of its operations. It doesn't necessarily have to do with ingenuity. A heavy mind is inventive, but a lively mind is sterile.

The liveliness of the mind does not paint a person too much if it is not accompanied by the fidelity of judgments. Not those watches are good that go fast, but those that show the exact time.

Envy does not know how to hide: it accuses and condemns without evidence, exaggerates shortcomings, elevates an insignificant mistake into a crime. She attacks the most undeniable virtues with dull fury.

From these two feelings, that is, the consciousness of one's strength and the consciousness of one's insignificance, the greatest passions are born; the consciousness of our insignificance encourages us to break out of the framework of our own personality, and the feeling of our strength encourages us in this and encourages us with hope.

Ingenuity is precisely the ability to compare things and recognize their connection.

Others live happily without knowing it themselves.

Other insults are better to swallow silently, so as not to cover yourself with dishonor.

The art of liking, the art of thinking, the art of loving, the art of speaking! How many beautiful rules and how little use they have if they are not taught by nature itself!

The art of liking is the art of deception.

Truth is the sun of reason.

True politicians know people better than sworn philosophers; I mean they are great philosophers.

Who knows, perhaps the mind owes its most brilliant conquests to the passions.

How little useful best advice, even if our own experience so rarely teaches us.

What an amazing sight it is to watch how people, secretly trying to harm each other, nevertheless help one another in spite of their inclinations and intentions!

No matter how fond we are for our friends or loved ones, the happiness of another is never enough to make us happy.

When I see a man praising reason, I'm willing to bet he's unreasonable.

Eloquent is the one who even involuntarily infects the mind and heart of his neighbor with his faith or passion.

Eloquence is probably the rarest, as well as the most elegant of all talents.

Who seeks glory on the path of virtue, he only requires a reward according to merit.

He who does not know the value of time is not born for glory.

Whoever is incapable of inventing fables has only one way out - to tell stories.

He who is incapable of great accomplishments despises great plans.

Whoever despises people usually considers himself a great man.

Whoever is able to endure everything, he is given the courage to do everything.

Whoever respects himself inspires respect in others.

Frivolous people are prone to double-thinking.

Frivolity is the lack of order and depth in thoughts.

The easiest way to destroy the party, which is based on the arguments of prudence.

It is easier to put on a gloss of omniscience than to acquire a few but solid knowledge.

It is easier to draw with a lot of knowledge than to be good at a few.

Lazy people are always going to do something.

A liar is a person who does not know how to deceive, a flatterer is one who usually deceives only fools.

A person's face expresses both his character and temperament. Stupidity only expresses physical properties- for example, good health, etc. And yet one cannot judge a person by his face, because the physiognomy of people, as well as the manner of carrying themselves, are distinguished by the interweaving of such different features that it is very easy to fall into error, not to mention unfortunate circumstances which disfigure natural features and do not allow the soul to be reflected in them - for example, smallpox, painful thinness, etc.

Only small people are always weighing what should be respected and what should be loved. A man of a truly great soul, without hesitation, loves everything that is worthy of respect.

The best support in misfortune is not reason, but courage.

Any passion that owns a person, as it were, opens direct access to him.

The love impulse is the first creator of the human race.

Love is stronger than pride: a woman can be loved even when she despises you.

A loving woman or a slave or a despot.

People always hate those who are harmed.

Small-minded people are sensitive to petty offenses; people of great intelligence notice everything and are not offended by anything.

People are unable to resist flattery, and even realizing that they are being flattered, they still fall for this bait.

People usually torture their neighbors under the pretext that they wish them well.

People by nature are so inclined to obey that the laws that govern them in their weakness are not enough for them, the rulers given by fate are not enough for them - give them also a fashion that prescribes even the style of shoes for a person.

People despise literature because they judge it as a craft, in terms of its usefulness for success in life.

People rarely come to terms with the humiliation that has befallen them: they simply forget about it.

People with ardent characters are rarely constant in friendship.

There are few hopeless misfortunes; despair is more deceptive than hope.

Few people managed to accomplish a great deed on someone else's prompt.

Melancholics are ardent, timid, restless, and in most cases only ambition and pride save them from vanity.

Dreams of great things are deceptive, but they entertain us.

Young people suffer less from their own faux pas than from the prudence of old people.

Young people do not know well what beauty is: they only know passion.

Courage helps in adversity more than reason.

Courage is a beacon in perverse fate.

We are receptive to friendship, justice, humanity, compassion and reason. Is this not virtue, my friends?

We know more useless things than necessary ones.

We are much more diligent in noticing the writer's contradictions, often imaginary, and other blunders, than we benefit from his judgments, both correct and erroneous.

We don't even trust smartest people when they advise how to behave, but we do not doubt the infallibility of our own advice.

We consider ourselves entitled to make a person happy at his own expense and do not want him to be happy on his own.

We want to earn respect so much that sometimes we actually become worthy of it.

Hope is the only blessing that cannot be satiated.

Hope is the most useful or the most destructive of all the blessings of life.

The most hated kind of ingratitude, but at the same time the most common and most primordial, is the ingratitude of children towards their parents.

Naivete makes itself understood better than accuracy: it is the language of feeling, it is preferable to the language of imagination and reason, therefore it is beautiful and generally understood.

Pleasure is the fruit of labor and its reward.

Ridicule is the offspring of satisfied contempt.

Mockery is a good test for pride.

Our mind is perceptive rather than consistent, and embraces more than it can comprehend.

Our moral delusions and disagreements come about because we look at people as if they could be perfectly bad or completely good.

Let us not take on faith the current opinion that all pleasures inherent in the nature of things are vicious. Whatever the age, whatever the people, then a new set of imaginary vices and virtues.

It is just as impossible not to have a single advantage as it is not to have a single disadvantage.

Conventional views should not be ridiculed - this only irritates, but does not at all discourage their defenders.

Ingratitude is the most vile, but at the same time the most primordial - this is the ingratitude of children to their parents.

It is a small advantage to have a lively mind if you do not have the correctness of judgment: the perfection of a clock is not in a fast, but in a correct move.

Constant stinginess in praise is the eternal sign of a mediocre mind.

You can't be just without being human.

Few great things can be done with advice.

The hatred of the weak is less dangerous than their friendship.

Necessity relieves us of the difficulty of choice.

casual conversation - best school for the mind.

The imperfection of our knowledge is by no means more obvious than their authenticity, and if they are not enough to prove with the help of reason, this deficiency is more than made up for by instinct.

Injustice always offends our feelings, unless it directly benefits us.

There is nothing more useful than a good name and nothing creates it so firmly as dignity.

There are no patrons more reliable than our own abilities.

There are no rules more changeable than the rules inspired by conscience.

There is no loss more painful and short-lived than the loss of a loved one.

There is no person so witty as to never be boring.

Ignorance is not a lack of intelligence, and knowledge is not a sign of genius.

Low in soul is he who is ashamed of his friendship with people whose shortcomings have become known to all.

Nothing can calm an envious person.

Nothing humiliates a man so much, makes him so miserable as vanity; it is the clearest sign of mediocrity.

Novelty is the only indisputable sign of genius.

People should be judged not by what they don't know, but by what they know and how deeply.

It is better to remain silent about other people than to praise them according to their merits.

It is not difficult to get around a high-ranking person with the help of flattery, but it is even easier to deceive yourself by relying on him: hope deceives more often than cunning.

The usual stupidity of the lucky ones is to think of themselves as clever wise men.

Solitude is to the mind what a starvation diet is to the body: sometimes it is necessary, but it should not be too long.

One fashion excludes another: the human mind is too narrow to appreciate many things at the same time.

Beware of the timid.

The experience that shows how limited our mind is teaches us to submit to prejudice.

Lack of heart is filled with complacency.

Despair completes not only our failures, but also our weakness.

Despair is the greatest of our delusions.

The changes required by the state usually occur independently of anyone's will.

Women who have chosen coquetry as their weapon are on the wrong path. They are few in whom they are able to ignite a great passion, and not because they are, as is commonly believed, frivolous, but because no one wants to be fooled.

According to one writer, a woman who is confident in the sophistication of her manner of dressing does not even suspect that someday they will make fun of her outfit, like Catherine de Medici's hairstyle: all our favorite fashions will become obsolete even earlier, perhaps than we ourselves and even than the so-called good tone.

The benefits of virtue are so obvious that even bad people act virtuously for the sake of profit.

The benefit brought by vices is always mixed with great harm.

Sometimes our weaknesses bind us to each other no less than our virtues.

Constancy is the everlasting dream of love.

The teachings of the elderly are like the winter sun: they shine, but do not warm.

The rules of morality, like people, change with each generation: they are prompted either by virtue or by vice.

Idleness is more tiring than work.

The limit of cunning is to manage without power.

Before you take up arms against evil, consider whether you are able to eliminate the causes that gave rise to it.

Habit is everything, even in love.

Passionate ambition from the very youth banishes all joy from our life: it wants to rule with autocracy.

Slavery humiliates a person to the point that he begins to love his fetters.

Reason leads us into deception more often than our nature.

Reason and feeling advise each other and complement each other. Who turns to only one of them and refuses the other, he thoughtlessly deprives himself of the help given to us for guidance.

Shyness can be defined as the fear of censure, shame as the certainty that it is inevitable.

The newest and most original book is the one that makes you love the old truths.

The highest thoughts are prompted by the heart.

Most helpful tips those that are easy to follow.

The best ministers were those people who, by the will of fate, were the furthest from the ministries.

The strength or weakness of our faith depends more on courage than on reason. He who laughs at omens is not always smarter than that who believe them.

It also happens that those in power neglect very talented people, because they are not suitable for small posts, and they do not want to give them big ones. With mediocre abilities, it is much easier to move forward: their owners will find a place everywhere.

The observance of chastity is imputed to the law to women, while in men they value depravity above all else. Well, isn't it funny?

The consciousness of the fruitfulness of labor is one of the best pleasures.

The ability to penetrate, like ingenuity, and every other human talent, is not always with us: we are not always disposed to delve into the thought of another.

We owe perhaps the greatest victories of the mind to passions.

Fear and hope can convince a person of anything.

Fear of people is the source of love for laws.

The severity of the law speaks of his philanthropy, and the severity of man speaks of his narrowness and hardness of heart.

A firm character must be combined with a flexible mind.

Those whose occupations are vile, such as thieves, or fallen women, boast of their vile deeds, and every decent person is taken for a fool.

Patience is the art of hoping.

What we call a brilliant thought is usually only a clever but deceitful phrase; flavored with a small amount of truth, it fixes us in error, which we ourselves marvel at.

Only women are forgiven for the weaknesses inherent in love, for they owe their power to it alone.

Only he is capable of great deeds who lives as if he were immortal.

Trading is a school of deceit.

You don't get rich trading honor.

He who is able to endure everything, can decide on everything.

He who demands payment for his honesty most often sells his honor.

To waste eloquence on condolences, when it is known that grief is feigned, is to shamelessly break a comedy.

A coward has to swallow fewer insults than one who is ambitious.

Vanity is the most natural property of people, and at the same time it deprives people of naturalness.

Vain people are bad diplomats: they do not know how to keep silent.

Severe humiliations rarely find consolation for themselves: they are simply forgotten.

Women usually have more vanity than temperament, and more temperament than virtue.

Inveterate wits have permanent place in good company - and always the last.

Mediocre hacks have more fans than envious people.

Respect, like love, also comes to an end.

Luck, revered everywhere so omnipotent, is almost powerless where there are no natural talents.

Finding out how clever a person is is sometimes the only benefit that can be derived from appointing him to a high position.

The mind of the majority of scientists is most correctly, perhaps, likened to a gluttonous person, but with bad digestion.

The mind achieves great things only by impulses.

The mind does not save us from stupid things done under the influence of mood.

A diplomat needs intelligence more than a minister: a high position sometimes eliminates the need to have a talent as well.

The mind is the eye of the soul, but not its strength, the strength of the soul is in the heart, that is, in the passions. Reason - the most enlightened - does not give strength to act and desire. Is it enough to have good vision to walk? Is it not necessary, in addition, to have legs, and also the desire and ability to move them?

The human mind is more perceptive than consistent, and embraces more than it can relate.

Moderation in great men limits only their vices.

Moderation in the weak is mediocrity.

Clever people would be completely alone if fools did not rank themselves among them.

It is only by impulses that the mind can soar to the heights of the great.

Minds are now at such a low price for only one reason - too many smart people divorced.

Managing one person is sometimes much more difficult than managing an entire nation.

Success brings few friends.

A cold-blooded person is like one who has eaten too much and then looks with disgust at the thinnest dish; who is to blame here - food or his stomach?

If you want to subdue others, start with yourself.

A person does not value his own kind so much as to recognize the ability of others to hold a high position. To recognize posthumously the merits of the one who successfully coped with it - that's all we are capable of.

A person who is of no use to anyone is reluctantly honest.

It is as if a person was born to fool others and remain a fool himself.

A person is called spineless if his soul is weak, frivolous, fickle, but even these shortcomings still form character.

Humanity is the first of the virtues.

The more strong, but contradictory passions in a person, the less he is able to excel in anything.

How smarter man, the more he is prone to incomprehensible recklessness.

Ambition is a sign of talent, courage is wisdom, passion is intelligence, and intelligence is knowledge, or vice versa, because from the case or circumstances any phenomenon is either good, or bad, or useful, or harmful.

Excessive prudence is no less pernicious than its opposite: people are of little use to those who are always afraid of being cheated.

What seems to some to be the breadth of the mind, to others is just a good memory and superficiality.

Someone else's wit quickly gets bored.

The joke of philosophers is so moderate that it cannot be distinguished from serious reasoning.

I have always found ridiculous attempt philosophers to invent a virtue that is incompatible with human nature, and having invented it, coldly declare that virtue does not exist at all.

I make a very serious distinction between stupidity and madness: mediocrity may not do madness, but it certainly does a lot of stupidity.

Language and thought are limited, but truth is infinite.

Clarity is here best exercise deep thought.