The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. - Nikolai Gogol
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
- Nikolai Gogol
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty. - Nikolai Gogol
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
I am who I am and that's who I am - Nikolai Gogol
I am who I am and that's who I am
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book. - Nikolai Gogol
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. - Nikolai Gogol
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. - Nikolai Gogol
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company. - Nikolai Gogol
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter. - Nikolai Gogol
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. - Nikolai Gogol
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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