Ivan Panin famous quotes

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
-- Ivan Panin

#Beauty #Heart #Eye

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.
-- Ivan Panin

#Knowledge

To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.
-- Ivan Panin

#Love #World #Window

How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness.
-- Ivan Panin

#Stars #Adversity #Eye

Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.
-- Ivan Panin

#Two #Gossip #Together

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.
-- Ivan Panin

#Art #Fate #Gold

Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.
-- Ivan Panin

#Failure #Opportunity #Being Thankful

The best excuse is to have none.
-- Ivan Panin

#Excuse

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
-- Ivan Panin

#Deception #Knaves #Way

As the paper though it entereth the press white, yet when it cometh forth black is eagerly sought to be perused; so do thou let thy life, though darkened by adversity, be made all the more useful to thy fellows.
-- Ivan Panin

#Adversity #White #Black

Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.
-- Ivan Panin

#Adversity #Nails #Thee

From the moment we expect gratitude, we forfeit it.
-- Ivan Panin

#Gratitude #Moments #Forfeit

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.
-- Ivan Panin

#History #Fables

Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.
-- Ivan Panin

#Life #Life Is #Meant To Be

Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.
-- Ivan Panin

#Women #Heart #Eye

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.
-- Ivan Panin

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
-- Ivan Panin

#Lying #Doe #Half

It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.
-- Ivan Panin

#Love #Beautiful #Sight

Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.
-- Ivan Panin

#Love #Echoes #Pumps

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.
-- Ivan Panin

#Love #Headache #Guillotine

Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
-- Ivan Panin

#Lions #Faces #Goddess

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.
-- Ivan Panin

#Lightning #Gone #Thunder

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
-- Ivan Panin

#Wise #Silence #Foolish

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.
-- Ivan Panin

#Men #Willing #Sinning

Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.
-- Ivan Panin

#Unhappy #Unhappiness #Unfortunate

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.
-- Ivan Panin

#Hate #Men #Remember

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
-- Ivan Panin

#Sorrow #Comfort

Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.
-- Ivan Panin

#Praise #Deserve #Deserving

It needs as much generosity to take as to give.
-- Ivan Panin

#Generosity #Giving #Needs

Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.
-- Ivan Panin

#Experience

As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.
-- Ivan Panin

#Long #Stronger #Weakness

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
-- Ivan Panin

#Wealth #Wealthy

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.
-- Ivan Panin

#Heart #Charity

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
-- Ivan Panin

#Inspirational Love #Heart

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
-- Ivan Panin

#Anniversary #Pain #Lions

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
-- Ivan Panin

#Men #Luxury #Doubt

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.
-- Ivan Panin

#Faith #Believe #Sight

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
-- Ivan Panin

#Talking #Mouths #Honey

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.
-- Ivan Panin

#Future #Men #Worry

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
-- Ivan Panin

#Men #Enemy

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
-- Ivan Panin

#Eye

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.
-- Ivan Panin

#Beautiful #Sea #Storm

To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.
-- Ivan Panin

#Wise #Strong #Eye

We are not men, but promises of men.
-- Ivan Panin

#Men #Promise

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
-- Ivan Panin

#Beach #Knowledge #Sand

Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.
-- Ivan Panin

#Experience

It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.
-- Ivan Panin

#Lightning #Roaring #Silent

The best life is that which makes the best of life.
-- Ivan Panin

#Life #Life Is

Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.
-- Ivan Panin

#Life #Problem #Solve