Source: Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy
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Famous Ivan Panin Quotes
“Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.”
“Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.”
“History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.”
“It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.”
“To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.”
“The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.”
“If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!”
“The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.”
“As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.”
“Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.”
“Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.”
“Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.”
“Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.”
“Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.”
“What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.”
“However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.”
“Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.”