هر انکه اسیر عواطف خود نگرانست نگران رویای گذشته زین پس دگر نخواهد شد هرگز دچار سحر و جادو فتنه نشیند بر دلش مار ندامت مار یادها و خاطرات گذشته - Alexander Pushkin

Недуг, которого причину
Давно бы отыскать пора,
Подобный английскому сплину,
Короче: русская хандра

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

It was thought that the confession of the accused was indispensable to his condemnation, an idea not only unreasonable, but contrary to the most simple good sense in matters of jurisprudence; for if the denial of the accused is not accepted as proof of his innocence, the confession which is torn from him by torture ought to serve still less as proof of his guilt.