To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself. -Ivan Turgenev

 

To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Ivan Turgenev quotes in our collection. Ivan Turgenev is known for saying 'To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

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Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

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I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this—Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

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