Aleksandr Pushkin quotes

Aleksandr Pushkin was a renowned Russian poet, playwright, and novelist, widely regarded as the founder of modern Russian literature. His works deeply influenced the Russian language and literary tradition. He continues to be celebrated for his innovative style and rich contributions to world literature. Here are 49 of his quotes:

Everyone in the world has enemies, But from a friends rescue us, my God! (Aleksandr Pushkin)
To be glorious is good, to be calm - twice as much. View quote
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Reading is the best teaching. View quote
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All women are charming, and it is the love of men that gives them their beauty. View quote
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Conscience is a clawed beast that scratches the heart. View quote
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The dependence of family life makes a person more moral. View quote
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. View quote
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Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of savagery and immorality. View quote
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People are never satisfied with the present, they have little hope for the future, so they decorate the irretrievable past with all the colors of. View quote
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. View quote
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Our children are our old age. (Aleksandr Pushkin)
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind. View quote
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery. View quote
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Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness. View quote
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Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts! View quote
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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound. View quote
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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world. View quote
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Tis time, my friend, ‘tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die. View quote
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There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended- Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord Put me to witness much for many years And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth. View quote
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Sad that our finest aspiration Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. View quote
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry. (Aleksandr Pushkin)
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change. View quote
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to. View quote
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God grant you, friends, a helping hand- In cares of state and private plights, In rowdy feasts of friendship's band, In passion's sweet and secret rites! God grant you, friends, a helping hand- In daily woes and days of strife, On vacant sa, in distant land, In every black abyss of life! View quote
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The illness with which he'd been smitten should have been analysed when caught, something like spleen, that scourge of Britain, or Russia's chondria, for short. View quote
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