Ivan Panin
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.Collection: Love
To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.Collection: Love
Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.Collection: Knowledge
As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.Collection: Beautiful
The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.Collection: Art
Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.Collection: Men
A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.Collection: Lying
Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.Collection: Love
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.Collection: Men
Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.Collection: Deserving It
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.Collection: Positive
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.Collection: Beach
Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.Collection: Sorrow
From the moment we expect gratitude, we forfeit it.Collection: Gratitude
History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.Collection: History
The best life is that which makes the best of life.Collection: Life
If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.Collection: Hate
To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.Collection: Wise
If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!Collection: Wise
Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.Collection: Women
We are not men, but promises of men.Collection: Men
The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.Collection: Heart
How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness.Collection: Stars
As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.Collection: Long
Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.Collection: Two
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.Collection: Wealth
Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.Collection: Future
Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.Collection: Faith
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.Collection: Anniversary
Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.Collection: Adversity
Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.Collection: Life
Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.Collection: Failure
The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.Collection: Wise
Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.Collection: Life
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.Collection: Talking
It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.Collection: Lightning
Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.Collection: Experience
Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.Collection: Unhappy
The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.Collection: Deception
It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.Collection: Love
Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.Collection: Lions
As the paper though it entereth the press white, yet when it cometh forth black is eagerly sought to be perused; so do thou let thy life, though darkened by adversity, be made all the more useful to thy fellows.Collection: Adversity
The best excuse is to have none.Collection: Excuse
The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.Collection: Lightning
Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.Collection: Experience
For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.Collection: Love
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.Collection: Beauty
It needs as much generosity to take as to give.Collection: Generosity
Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.Collection: Men