The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things… — Nikolai Gogol Cautious Copy Share Image
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous… — Nikolai Gogol Educated Copy Share Image
“in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“What grief is not taken away by time? What passion will survive an unequal battle with it? I knew a man in… — Nikolai Gogol Death Copy Share Image
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. — Nikolai Gogol Flash Copy Share Image
“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really… — Nikolai Gogol Aging Copy Share Image
Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for… — Nikolai Gogol Atheists Copy Share Image
“The long-forgotten, living eyes of the portrait began to torment him, and then his madness became dreadful. All the people who surrounded… — Nikolai Gogol Life Copy Share Image
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor… — Nikolai Gogol Brain Copy Share Image
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. — Nikolai Gogol Accord Copy Share Image
As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty,… — Nikolai Gogol Humans Copy Share Image
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man,… — Nikolai Gogol Anything and everything Copy Share Image
In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was… — Nikolai Gogol Goodness Copy Share Image
“Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of… — Nikolai Gogol Loser Copy Share Image
“Leave me alone! Why do you insult me?" and in those heart-rending words he heard others: "I am your brother.” — Nikolai Gogol Brother Copy Share Image
“Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something. — Nikolai Gogol Entity Copy Share Image
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from… — Nikolai Gogol Different Copy Share Image
“Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims… — Nikolai Gogol Knowledge Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are… — Nikolai Gogol Bricks Copy Share Image
“It must be noted that this Person of Consequence had only lately become a person of consequence, and until recently had been… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my… — Nikolai Gogol Attention Copy Share Image