A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)
“Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.”
A History of God (1993)
Source: A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
113
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
“I love women who don't let themselves be tamed. Those who scratch and bite, but know how to love.”
Original: Adoro le donne che non si lasciano domare. Quelle che graffiano e mordono, ma sanno amare.
Source: prevale.net
“We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love.”
Il faut aimer n'importe qui, n'importe quoi, n'importe comment, pourvu qu'on aime.
Les Idées de Madame Aubray (1867), Act I, sc. ii; translation from Louis Proal (trans. A. R. Allinson) Passion and Criminality (London: Imperial Press, 1905) p. 563.
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 117
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us.”
No. 80 (October 27, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
Source: September 1, 1939 (1939), Lines 19–22
“Those whom the gods love grow young.”
A humorous reference to Menander's "ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος [whom the gods love dies young]".
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
