When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. Book II
If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. Book VII
However, nothing turned out as Tchitchikoff had intended. Dead Souls
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself. Book III
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