Quotes by Piotr Ceaadaev

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Without a blind faith in abstract perfection it is impossible to take a single step towards actual perfection. Only by believing the intangible good can we approach the tangible good.

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A powerless enemy is our best friend; an envious friend is our worst enemy.

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In the field of morality, movement is not based only on the pleasure of moving, there must also be a goal: to deny the possibility of reaching perfection, that is, to reach the goal, is to make movement impossible.

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There are men who form their heart with the help of reason, and others with the help of the heart, who form their reason: the latter succeed more than the former, because there is more reason in a feeling than feelings in reason.

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There is nothing easier than to love those you love, to be able to love a little those you don't.

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Nothing exhausts more, nothing increases cowardice so much as a mad hope.

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Above all, you owe it to your country and your friends to tell the truth.

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I prefer to scourge my country, to grieve and humiliate it, but in no case to deceive it.