Ivan Panin

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

— Ivan Panin

Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.

— Ivan Panin

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

— Ivan Panin

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

— Ivan Panin

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of…

— Ivan Panin

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for…

— Ivan Panin

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

— Ivan Panin

The best life is that which makes the best of life.

— Ivan Panin

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

— Ivan Panin

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but…

— Ivan Panin

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

— Ivan Panin

It needs as much generosity to take as to give.

— Ivan Panin

To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes,…

— Ivan Panin

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

— Ivan Panin

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

— Ivan Panin

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

— Ivan Panin

It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

— Ivan Panin

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

— Ivan Panin

Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

— Ivan Panin

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

— Ivan Panin

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

— Ivan Panin

Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.

— Ivan Panin

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

— Ivan Panin