“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.”
Source: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 4, st. 1.
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Russian poet 1799–1837Related quotes

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 123.

“We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.”
Letter to a member of the Brent family (6 December 1770)

“It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.”
Quoted in Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men https://www.bartleby.com/344/64.html by Samuel Arthur Bent. Published by Ticknor and Co. in 1887.

Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 47 (p. 510)

“We love our language and our country, and we are doing our very utmost to raise her”
The War and Russian Social-Democracy (September 1917), The Lenin Anthology
1910s
Context: Is a sense of national pride alien to us, Great-Russian class-conscious proletarians? Certainly not! We love our language and our country, and we are doing our very utmost to raise her toiling masses (i. e., ninth-tenths of her population) to the level of a democratic and socialist consciousness. To us it is most painful to see and feel the outrages, the oppression an the humiliation our fair country suffers at the hands of the tsar's butchers, the nobles and the capitalists.

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 98.

“He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.”
Epitaph of Philip Nolan in "The Man Without a Country" (1863)

“Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.”
No. 15.
Maxims and Moral Sentences