“Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).”

“Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.”

“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live.”

“Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius”

“É possível salvar uma pessoa que não quer perder-se; mas se toda a natureza está assim corrompida, pervertida, que a própria perdição lhe parece a salvação, o que fazer?(Aleksei Aleksándrovitch)”

“Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”

“It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.”