Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Federal Agency for Education

Kostroma State Technological University

Department of Cultural Studies and Philology

A.V. finches

RHETORIC

100 tests with answers and explanations

Kostroma

UDC 82.085 (075)

Zyablikov A.V. Rhetoric. 100 tests with answers and explanations: a manual for independent work of students of legal specialties. Kostroma: Publishing House of the Kostroma State Technological University, 2009.

The manual is written in accordance with the educational standards of the new generation. The proposed tests cover the content of the university course in rhetoric. The explanations reveal the main rhetorical categories, comment on practical tasks.

The manual is intended for independent work of students of legal specialties, as well as all those interested in theory, skill and the art of eloquence.

Reviewers:

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of the Russian Language, Kostroma State University. ON THE. Nekrasov I.Yu. Tretyakova;

Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor V.N. Tarkovsky

© Zyablikov A.V., 2009

© Kostroma State Technological University, 2009

Complete tasks by choosing one response option out of four options.

After completing the work, check the results with the correct answers.

TESTS

1. What does rhetoric study?


  1. theory and practice of legal proceedings

  2. spelling rules

  3. biographies of great people

  4. theory and art of eloquence

2. What is considered the birthplace of rhetoric?


  1. Ancient Egypt

  2. ancient india

  3. Ancient Greece

  4. medieval Europe

3. Questions that contribute to the clarification and establishment of the truth are usually called in rhetoric


  1. Socratic

  2. Platonic

  3. rhetorical

  4. Homeric

4. Who formulated the first postulates of eloquence?


  1. Euripides

  2. Plato

  3. Aristophanes

  4. Pericles

5. Who is the author of the above instruction to Alexander the Great: “Try to be quick to do good deeds and slow to anger: the first is royal and merciful, the second is disgusting and characteristic of barbarians. However, do what you think is right, not despising useful opinions?


  1. Cicero

  2. Socrates

  3. Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  4. Aristotle

6. What is sophistry?


  1. doctrine of the wisdom of God

  2. the art of church preaching

  3. the use in a dispute or evidence of inferences that are essentially false, but formally seem to be correct

  4. application to certain particular cases of general dogmatic provisions in theology and medieval jurisprudence

  1. Anaxagoras

  2. Cicero

  3. Aristotle

  4. Sophocles

8. Who became the head of the first school of rhetoric, created with the participation of the state?


  1. Quintilian

  2. Zeno

  3. Horace

  4. Juvenal

9. A bright example of Old Russian epideictic(solemn) eloquence is


  1. "Journey beyond three seas" Afanasy Nikitin

  2. "The Tale of the Shemyakin Court"

  3. Metropolitan Hilarion's Sermon on Law and Grace

  4. "The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom" Yermolai-Erasmus

10. A striking example of Old Russian didactic eloquence is


  1. "The Tale of Igor's Campaign"

  2. "Instruction" by Vladimir Monomakh

  3. "Zadonshchina"

  4. "The Tale of the Devastation of Ryazan by Batu"

11. From which ancient Russian literary source is the above passage taken? “Husbands should instruct their wives with love and exemplary instruction; the wives of their husbands ask about the strict order, about how to save the soul, to please God and the husband, and to arrange their house well, and to obey the husband in everything; and what the husband punishes, with that willingly agree and fulfill according to his instructions: and above all, have the fear of God and stay in bodily purity ... ".


  1. "The Tale of Bygone Years"

  2. "Domostroy" Sylvester

  3. "The Life of Archpriest Avvakum"

  4. "Prayer" by Daniil Zatochnik

12. When did the first Russian "Rhetoric" appear?


  1. 16th century

  2. 17th century

  3. 18th century

  4. 19th century

  1. A.P. Sumarokov

  2. VC. Trediakovsky

  3. HELL. Cantemir

  4. M.V. Lomonosov

  1. MM. Speransky

  2. N.F. Koshansky

  3. K.P. Zelenetsky

  4. P.E. Georgievsky

15. One of the main rhetorical postulates reads:


  1. you need to disarm the opponent with an argument

  2. no need to answer a question with a question

  3. the interlocutor should not know your true intentions

  4. the position of the listener is a priority

16. Which of the four laws of rhetoric is responsible for the consistency and consistency of speech?


  1. law of pleasure

  2. law of harmonizing dialogue

  3. law of advancement and orientation of the addressee

  4. law of emotionality

17. Not a natural means of communication


  1. sounding word

  2. writing

  3. signature (timbre)
18. Invention- This

  1. work on the idea of ​​a speech work

  2. work on the composition of speech

  3. translating thoughts into words

  4. speech execution

19. What is hriya?


  1. scheme of reasoning

  2. storytelling scheme

  3. position taken as an immutable, indisputable truth

  4. two-syllable meter

20. Artificial hriya is often called


  1. classical

  2. Aristotelian

  3. deductive

  4. reverse

21. Part of the strict hriya, which is an explanation of the topic, is


  1. definition

  2. parabola

  3. seizure (proposition)

  4. paraphrase

22. In strict chriya, the "reason" part is followed by

1. example

2. similarity

3. nasty

4. testimonial

23. Each thought in the process of this reasoning retains the same definite content, no matter how many times this thought is repeated. That's what the law says


  1. non-contradictions

  2. identities

  3. excluded third

  4. good reason

24. An illustration of what logical law is the dialogue between Dmitry Rudin and Afrikan Pigasov - the heroes of the novel by I.S. Turgenev "Rudin"

– Wonderful! Rudin said. “So, in your opinion, there are no convictions?”

– No and does not exist.

– Is this your belief?

– Yes.

– How do you say they don't exist. Here's one for you, for the first time.

1. non-contradictions

2. identities

3. excluded third

4. good reason

25. Argument- This


  1. thought illustration

  2. a word or expression borrowed from the speech of a socially closed group

  3. logical reasoning

  4. quote from an authoritative source

26. What kind of argument does L.D. Trotsky in his article "On the Intelligentsia" (1912)?

That we are comprehensively poor with the accumulated poverty of thousands of years, there is no need to prove this. History shook us out of its sleeve in harsh conditions and scattered us in a thin layer over a large plain. No one offered us another place of residence: we had to pull the strap in the allotted area. Asiatic invasions from the East, merciless pressure from the West from richer Europe, absorption by the state leviathan of an excessive share of the people's labor - all this not only depleted the working masses, but also dried up the sources of food for the ruling classes.

1. to meaning

2. to circumstances

3. to precedent

4. back to normal

27. Deriving a judgment from other judgments is


  1. package

  2. amplification

  3. inference

  4. emphase

28. Abbreviated syllogism, in which one of the parts is only implied, is


  1. enthymeme

  2. antonym

  3. applique

  4. dogma

29. What is the name of the order of argumentation, in which strong arguments are given at the beginning and at the end of a speech, and weaker ones in the middle?


  1. Homeric

  2. free

  3. descending

  4. ascending

30. Part sophistical argumentation is


  1. inductive reasoning

  2. appeal to fact

  3. demagogy

  4. appeal to a person

31. Element counterarguments(criticism) is not


  1. example

  2. reduction to absurdity

  3. word fishing

  4. default detection

32. In rhetoric, the term is used to denote the composition, connection and sequence of arguments.


  1. scheme

  2. reduction

  3. outer top

  4. inner top

33. When deductive reasoning


  1. a general conclusion is made about the entire class of objects on the basis of knowledge of only some homogeneous objects of this class

  2. a general conclusion is made on the basis of knowledge about all subjects of this class without exception

  3. the phenomenon is considered on the basis of the already existing general position

  4. semantic parts are arranged randomly, freely

34. Give a description of the opinion expressed by the Belgian journalist Sylvia Cheese.

A horseshoe brings happiness, unless, of course, you are a horse.


  1. attributive affirmative

  2. attributive negative

  3. relational

  4. modal

35. Determine the purpose of the above statement by Sigmund Freud.

Infinitely many civilized people who would recoil in horror from murder or incest, do not deny themselves the satisfaction of their greed, their aggressiveness, their sexual passions, do not miss the opportunity to harm others with lies, deceit, slander, if they can go unpunished in the process, and this continues unchanged through many cultural epochs.


  1. assertive

  2. axiological

  3. directive

  4. declarative

36. What is the name of the section of rhetoric that studies the application of universal semantic models?


  1. aesthetics

  2. topic

  3. toponymy

  4. homiletics

37. What semantic model involves the identification of characteristic features, functions and actions of an object?


  1. "whole - parts"

  2. "genus and species"

  3. "circumstance"

  4. "property"

38. What semantic model does A.F. Koni at the beginning of the accusatory speech in the case of the drowning of a peasant woman Emelyanova by her husband (heard on December 12, 1872 in the St. Petersburg District Court)?

Gentlemen of the judge, gentlemen of the jury! Your consideration is subject to the most diverse cases in their internal setting, where witness testimony breathes such common sense, is imbued with such sincerity and truthfulness, and is often distinguished by such imagery that the task of the judiciary becomes very easy. It remains to group all these testimonies, and then they themselves will form a picture that will create in your mind a certain definite idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe case. But there are cases of a different kind, where the testimonies are of a completely different nature, where they are confused, unclear, vague, where the witnesses are silent about many things, they are afraid to say much, showing you an example of evasive reticence and far from complete sincerity. I will not be mistaken in saying that the present case belongs to the last category ...


  1. "certificate"

  2. "cause and investigation"

  3. "mapping"

  4. "example"

39. What is the model of meaning used by José Ortega y Gasset in the above passage from The Revolt of the Masses (1930)?

The crowd is a quantitative and visual concept: a multitude. Let us translate it, without distorting it, into the language of sociology. And we get "mass". Society has always been a mobile unity of the minority and the masses. Minority - a set of persons singled out especially; mass - not allocated by anything. Consequently, we are talking not only and not so much about the “working masses”. The mass is the average person. Thus, a purely quantitative definition - "many" - turns into a qualitative one.

2. "whole - parts"

3. "definition"

4. "previous - next"

40. discourse called in rhetoric


  1. flow of speech accompanied by gestural-mimic behavior

  2. academic speech

  3. discussion of a controversial issue

  4. unsupported assertion

41. What type of discourse aims to observe the speech tradition, decency?


  1. epideictic

  2. hedonistic

  3. argumentative

  4. ritual

…When your companion sits at the table with others, then keep yourself in order according to this rule: cut your nails first, so that they don’t appear as if they were lined with velvet. Wash your hands and sit decently, sit up straight, and do not grab the first in the dish, do not eat like a pig, and do not blow into the ear so that it splashes everywhere, do not sniff whenever you eat.

1. artistic

2. informing

3. campaigning

4. heuristic

43. dialogical speech is also called

1. Compiled

2. contextual

3. comparative

4. commutative

44. Mandatory element provocative speech is


  1. hidden threat

  2. mockery

  3. interrogative construction

45. What genus does drinking speech?

1. social and household

2. socio-political

3. academic

4. judicial

46. Disposition is the branch of rhetoric responsible for

1. performance of speech

2. intent of speech

3. construction of speech

4. memorization of speech

47. What is the name of the final part of the speaker's speech?

1. catachresis

3. clause

4. controversy

48. The section called


  1. memorio

  2. action

  3. elocution

  4. invention

49. Determine the type of speech.

Not only the content, but also the form of A.F. Koni testified to his outstanding oratorical talent. His speeches were always simple and alien to rhetorical embellishments, although they were full of images, comparisons, generalizations and apt remarks that gave them life and beauty. They confirmed the correctness of Pascal's saying that true eloquence laughs at eloquence as an art that develops according to the rules of rhetoric. (V. Smolyarchuk).


  1. narration

  2. reasoning

  3. description

  4. all types

50. Determine the type of speech.

On the very day of my arrival here, I had a meeting with the head of the secret Vatican archive, Count. Mariino-Marini and the next day examined the acts written off for me. Having then received written permission from Cardinal Secretary of State Bernetti to inspect the secret archive and the manuscripts stored in it, I went there with Marino-Marini and spent several hours reviewing this treasury of European and world history (A.I. Turgenev).


  1. narration

  2. reasoning

  3. description

  4. all types

51. The most intense moment of the story is

1. climax

2. interchange

3. exposure

4. tie

52. Indicate a feature that is not characteristic of an anecdote as a rhetorical genre.

1. paradoxical ending, contrary to the usual logic

2. detailed judgments

3. aphoristic language

4. small volume

53. Rhetorical it with- This


  1. persuasion category

  2. category of emotionality

  3. objection category

  4. trust category

The center of Kostroma is a trace of Fursov's talent not burdened with sobriety. The flight of this Russian poetry is clearly felt on Susaninskaya Square and around.

In the distance, Lenin rises above the Gingerbread Rows, already at a distance surprising with a thieves' pose: his stomach is protruded, everything is unbuttoned, his hand is in his pocket. Ivan Susanin on the Milk Mountain above the Volga, on the contrary, is streamlined so that it looks like a continuation of the round pedestal (P. Weil).


  1. naturalistic

  2. romantic

  3. sentimental

  4. ironic

55. What is the name of the type of communication focused on providing a direct psychological impact on the interlocutor and consisting of reactions expressing one's own assessments and aspirations?


  1. belittlingly yielding

  2. directive

  3. understanding

  4. defensive-aggressive

56. Compliance with the rule relevance


  1. be concise

  2. to be polite

  3. say something that is relevant to the topic of conversation

  4. be truthful

57. Compliance with the rule tact lies in the speaker's ability

1. minimize personal gain

2. be positive in assessing the interlocutor

3. respect the boundaries of the interlocutor's personal sphere

4. avoid ambiguity

58. Condition competence speaker is not


  1. appearance

  2. argumentation technique

  3. mastery of the word

  4. practical experience

59. The speaker's ability to be himself lies in his

1. artistry

2. objectivity

3. charm

4. integrity

60. What oratorical type does A.P. make fun of? Chekhov in the story "The Orator"?

Zapoikin, as many readers know, has a rare talent for impromptu wedding, anniversary and funeral speeches. He can talk at any time: awake, on an empty stomach, dead drunk, in a fever. His speech flows smoothly, evenly, like water from a drainpipe, and abundantly; there are more pathetic words in his oratorical vocabulary than cockroaches in any tavern. He always speaks eloquently and at length, so that sometimes, especially at merchant weddings, one has to resort to the assistance of the police to stop him.


  1. "guilty speaker"

  2. "hermit"

  3. "oracle"

  4. "acting rhetoric"

61. What oratory does D.S. Likhachev in the above passage?

I was a schoolboy in the North near the Pomors. They struck me with their intelligence, their special folk culture, the culture of the people's language, their special handwritten literacy (Old Believers), the etiquette of receiving guests, the etiquette of food, cultural work, delicacy, etc., etc.


  1. dramatization

  2. appeal to personal experience

  3. expression

  4. forecasting

62. What oratorical technique does Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin) use in the above passage?

Shiigumen Savva could not stand verbosity. He taught his children to speak as concisely as possible. To some, he gave the rule to say no more than a certain number of words per day. The elder strove to keep inner prayer from scattering, so he preferred that spiritual children write down their confession - no more than one or two pages. They had to think it over, choose the most important and discard the secondary.<...>. The fewer words, the clearer the matter, the more correct the answer can be given by the confessor.”

2. comparison of all pros and cons

3. expression

4. hyperbole

63. You are about to give a lecture on the need to fight smoking. What is the best way to formulate the topic?


  1. "On the dangers of smoking".

  2. "Terrible Habit"

  3. Nicotine is poison!

  4. How I managed to quit smoking.

64. Choose the most appropriate way to end a telephone conversation with a talkative interlocutor.

1. "Sorry, I'm very busy, I have no time."

2. "I'm not very interested in your offer."

3. "Excuse me, my boss is calling me."

4. “I was glad to communicate with you. Now I have things to do, but we will definitely return to our conversation.”

65. Choose the most acceptable option to object to the opponent during the discussion.


  1. "What you say has nothing to do with the truth."

  2. "Your thought is interesting though...".

  3. "You are wrong about that."

  4. "You are talking nonsense..."
66. During the discussion, your opponent exaggerates unprincipled trifles, forgetting about the essence of the conversation. What is the best way to do it?

1. try to turn off the conversation.

2. clarify with the opponent the purpose of the discussion

3. reproach the opponent for avoiding the essence of the problem

4. comment on each of the points proposed by the interlocutor

67. At a formal reception, you must address the governor with a speech. How will you start?


  1. "Dear…"

  2. "Dearest..."

  3. "Sir..."

  4. "Your Excellency..."

68. Describe the remark that the philosopher Diogenes addressed to his opponent.

– I won't scold you, not at all. I will even praise your hair for having come out of your bad head.


  1. compromising

  2. obstructionist

  3. threatening

  4. ironic

69. When empathic hearing we


  1. experiencing the same feelings as our interlocutor

  2. show the interlocutor that we are not interested in his point of view

  3. actively reflect on what has been said and clarify its content

  4. just pretend to listen

70. The emotion associated with a correct guess is one of


  1. rational

  2. ethical

  3. aesthetic

  4. physiological

71. You are the light of the world. A city on top of a mountain cannot hide. And having lighted a candle, they do not put it under a vessel, but on a candlestick, and it gives light to all in the house. So let your light shine before people, so that they see your good deeds and glorify your Father in Heaven.

The passage quoted is a vivid example


  1. legal eloquence

  2. spiritual eloquence

  3. military eloquence

  4. academic eloquence

72. Determine style speech.

Dear Alexander Sergeevich!

Your application with a request to inform about the fate of your grandfather, Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky, has been considered.

In accordance with the archival materials available at the Office, Pavel Aleksandrovich Florensky, born in 1882 ... was arrested by the OGPU on February 25, 1933 and, without sufficient grounds, was accused of "counter-revolutionary agitation and propaganda and organization of counter-revolutionary activities", i.e. in the commission of crimes under Art. 58-10-11. . By the ruling of the Arkhangelsk Regional Court dated March 5, 1959 ... the case was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti. .

1. colloquial

2. journalistic

3. official business

4. scientific

73. A sign of scientific style is not

1. informative richness

2. standardization

3. objectivity

4. expressiveness

74. Trope- This


  1. means of organizing speech

  2. a word or phrase used in a figurative sense

  3. default figure

  4. combination of two or more verses that make up a single rhythmic and intonational whole

75. What trope is used in the sentence?

Before us is Znamenskaya Square and the station of the St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway, the gradual construction of which at the end of the forties was watched with greedy attention and sympathy by Belinsky, who lived on the banks of the Ligovka near Nevsky, in a small wooden house overlooking the building under construction (A.F. Horses).


  1. epithet

  2. metonymy

  3. litotes

  4. paraphrase

76. What stylistic means is not a kind of metonymy?


  1. antonomasia

  2. pronomination

  3. synecdoche

  4. apophasia

77. What stylistic figure uses A.A. Block in the above passage from the article "Intelligentsia and Revolution" (1918)?

The Russian intelligentsia - like a bear stepped on the ear: petty fears, petty words. Isn't it a shame to scoff at the illiteracy of some announcements or letters that are written by a kind but clumsy hand? Isn't it a shame to proudly remain silent on "stupid" questions? Isn't it a shame to pronounce the beautiful word "comrade" in quotation marks?

1. anaphora

2. pleonasm

3. parceling

4. gradation

78. What stylistic device is used in the sentence?

The mass of the Russian army that has risen and is still continuing to rise to defend the fatherland goes to the West (Vasily Rozanov).


  1. oxymoron

  2. ellipse

  3. metaphor

  4. tautology

79. What stylistic device is not used in the sentence?

Tertullian is a fighting nature, unparalleled, a merciless fighter who sees his victory only in the complete defeat of the enemy; his tongue is like the shining edge of a sword, with cruel skill directed at the enemy. (K. Jung).

1. epithet

2. comparison

3. inversion

4. epiphora

80. What stylistic figure is used in the sentence?

How many different arts, substances, tools a reasonable person uses to satiate his senseless womb! (Fr. Filaret of Moscow).


  1. a rhetorical question

  2. rhetorical appeal

  3. rhetorical exclamation

  4. enallaga

81. The fact is that our talents are somehow connected with vices, and virtues - with colorlessness (V.V. Rozanov).

This judgment contains


  1. sarcasm

  2. paradox

  3. chiasmus

  4. panegyric

82.Then the count left, taking with him the bills and leaving the maid Emma in an interesting position.

This offer contains


  1. euphemism

  2. hyperbole

  3. prosopopoeia (personification)

  4. isocolon

83. The form of the existence of language is not


  1. jargon

  2. vernacular

  3. dialect

  4. anachronism

84. Indicate the lexical meaning of the word Bohemia.

1. representatives of high society, an aristocratic society

2. indigenous people of Bohemia

3. non-conformist artists (musicians, poets) leading a hectic and uncertain life

4. business elite of society

85. What is tort?

1. courtesy, courtesy

2. constitutional offense

3. international treaty

4. elected or appointed representative of a society, organization, team

86. What question can be called sacramental?

1. traditional

3. suggestive

4. unrelated to the topic of conversation

87. What is absenteeism?

2. alcohol addiction

3. court order to release the defendant from punishment

88. Which sentence contains a speech error?

1. Contrary to public opinion, the construction of the plant was started.

3. According to the court decision, Blue Lagoon LLC is obliged to pay citizen Petrov A.A. monetary compensation.

4. In order to avoid errors and discrepancies, I ask you to check the text of the document again.

89. Indicate a sentence without a speech defect.


  1. The version of suicide remained unconfirmed.

  2. The testimony of the victim played a huge role in establishing the truth.

  3. The creation and activities of public associations whose goals or actions are aimed at forcibly changing the foundations of the constitutional order are prohibited.

  4. Everyone has the right to privacy of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal, telegraphic and other communications.

90. Give a description of the above statement.

The talks that took place will contribute to the strengthening of international cooperation.


  1. aphorism

  2. publicistic stamp

  3. business cliché

  4. occasional expression

91. Indicate the grammatically incorrect option.

1. Matilda and Gertrud Fischbach

2. Bill and Hillary Clinton

3. Jones sisters

4. husband and wife Jackson

92. Which word is stressed incorrectly?

1. initiatedO (case)

2. condemned

3. funds

4. judgment

93. Which word is stressed incorrectly?

1. debtor

2. necrophilia

3. citizenship

4. Impairment

94. Which word is stressed incorrectly?

1. hired

2. Phenomenon

3. Notified

4. force

95. Which word is stressed incorrectly?

1. post (3rd person)

2. Ukrainian

3. customs clearance

4. bonuses

96. Which word is stressed incorrectly?

1. blinds

2. expert

3. application

4. contract

97. What is not an element of speech technique?


  1. voice control

  2. diction

  3. speech breathing

  4. possession of emotions

98. There is a pointing finger

1. gesture-affector

2. gesture illustrator

3. gesture adapter

4. gesture emblem

99. Arms crossed on the chest there is a gesture

1. waiting

2. frustration

3. denial

4. uncertainty

100. The interlocutor covers his mouth with his hand during a conversation. This most likely means that the interlocutor

1. I am completely sure that I am right

2. doubts something or keeps something back

3. tries to control himself

4. very disposed towards you


Vadim Sorokin preaches on the topic: Be quick to hear!
Minisermon from the series: Word of Faith for every day - April 21, 2014


James 1:19-20 is a very important principle and a very important rule:
19 Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
20 For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Look, friends, we all really want to be understood, we want to speak out and be understood, to be understood and agreed with us, and at the same time, we do not want to understand the person who is our interlocutor or opponent.

Jacob is a very wise man. He had his faults, if we read the history of the church, we study the epistles, the character, but nevertheless he was a very wise man - that cannot be taken away from him.

And this is what he says: my beloved brothers, try to understand the person, try to hear him, let your ears be bigger and your mouth closed. And when you understand the person, perhaps your words will change and peace will come. Because if you do not understand him, but only speak, interrupt, wish that only you were understood, this will certainly cause anger and conflict.

Dear friends, very often we think: in order for the situation to be resolved, we must be listened to and understood. And we do not set ourselves the task of understanding the person who speaks to us.

First, I have a habit: when I read the Bible, I put myself in the place of the biblical heroes and think: what would I do? Secondly, when I have a human opponent, I try to put myself in his place, to think as he thinks, and, you know, a lot of things become clear to me. It is not a fact that I agree with him on everything, but for me many things become clear, and we avoid conflicts.

I sometimes say: listen, I’m sorry for that, for that, I didn’t think until I took your place that it could offend you, hurt you, and so on.

You know, we each have our own shortcomings, our own butterflies in our heads - we do not notice them, we are indulgent towards them. And for that, we see the shortcomings of other people. Jesus was specifically talking about beams in the eyes, you must have read about it.

I will tell this Jewish anecdote about how people do not want to hear and understand each other:
One family came to divorce the judge, and he says:
- What is the reason for the divorce?
- We do not converge characters and we have different views on life.
Judge says:
- Well, can it be concrete?
- Look, she bought a goat and keeps it in our bedroom. Can you imagine what a stink there is, bleating. That goat is messing up everything.
And the judge, a wise man, thinks: well, how can we bring everything to peace? And says to her husband:
- Well, maybe you still tried to understand her, condescend to her, maybe you open the windows and ventilate the room ...
- Yes? And all my doves will fly out?

Dear friends, each had his own problems and each had his troubles, but they considered them a shrine, and the other's troubles a disadvantage. Dear friends, be quick to hear and understand the other person. And only after that express your opinion. Be slow in your words and judgments, and then, perhaps, there will simply be no room for anger.

You may like the following sermons.

Learn to be silent

when others are talking

So, my beloved brothers,

let every man be quick to hear,

slow to speak, slow to anger.

James 1:19

When to be silent and when to speak is one of the most important life lessons,

which needs to be learned. For example, if your boss tells you something, you

should be silent and listen carefully. If you listen and listen at the same time

talk, then you might get the gist of the conversation, but miss important facts and

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to

words, slow to anger” (James 1:19). The Greek word tachus - "quick", can be attributed to

a runner who runs with all his might to be the first to run to the finish line. Its purpose is

win the race, so he, focusing only on the finish line, rushes

forward to take first place.

Given the meaning of the word tachus, the first part of the verse can be translated as follows:

“So, my beloved brethren, listen attentively to what is being said to you,

listen as carefully as if you were in a competition for the best

listener..."

Jacob says we should be champions in listening. Maybe you have to

make some effort to listen carefully to the interlocutor and try to

understand him, and not interrupt him or not think about something of his own at this time. This happens

it is difficult for those whose thoughts are constantly busy with something, for those who have to

think through all sorts of details. I'll give myself as an example. If I don't leave mine

thoughts and not focus on a conversation with a person, I will miss a lot of what he tells me

speaks. I think about something all the time: about my church, ministry, television

programs. I travel and preach all over the world. I write many books. Above all

Other than that, I am a husband and a father. On rare occasions, I don't think about it all. And one day I realized:

I need to learn to listen. After all, people hope that I listen to them carefully, but on

in fact, in my thoughts I can be very far from them. That I look into their eyes

does not mean that I listen to them. If I want to hear and understand what they say to me, I

should stop thinking about his own and focus on their words. I decided this: once a person

considered it necessary and important to tell me something, I must consider it necessary and important

listen to him, even if I disagree with him. And pretending to listen is

to say the least, indecent.

It took me years to learn how to be an attentive listener. Wishing

to make sure that I understood everything correctly and did not miss anything, I usually ask again

interlocutor:

* You just said so-and-so. Did I understand you correctly?

*That's the crux of the matter, isn't it?

* From our conversation, I understood something, am I not mistaken?

* You want me to do something, right?

* Is there anything else I need to know about the topic of our conversation?

If during the conversation I missed something

Good was not called pleasant feelings, but a state of fullness and strength.
F. Nietzsche

Good is the eternal, highest goal of our life. No matter how we understand good, our life is nothing but striving for good.
L. Tolstoy

Kindness is not a science, it is an action.
R. Rolland

Kindness is like a superlative degree of good, it is like a very useful good.
N. Chernyshevsky

Only those few who do it believe in goodness.
Maria Ebner-Eschenbach

The more people are disposed towards evil, the more capable they are of believing it. In general, they are more likely to believe fictional evil than real good.
Tertullian

A persistent and fruitful evil must be countered by slow and persistent work: not to destroy it. but so that it does not overcome us.
Seneca

To get their way, bad people only need good people to watch from the sidelines and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill

Whoever does good - even for the weight of a speck of dust, he will receive a reward for it. Whoever commits evil - even for the weight of a speck of dust, he will receive retribution for him.
Koran, 99, 7-8

You must make good out of evil, because there is nothing else to make of it.
Robert Penn Warren

Seek to eliminate concrete evil rather than to realize an abstract good.
Karl Popper

The most dangerous of all is a man who is unable to harm a fly: he will not dare to offend a scorpion.
Grigory Landau

God either wants to destroy evil and cannot, or can, but does not want, or does not want and cannot, or wants and can. If he can and does not want to, he is envious, which is equally far from God. If he wants to and cannot, he is powerless, which does not correspond to God. If he does not want and cannot, then he is envious and powerless. If he wants and can, which is only befitting of a god, then where does evil come from and why does he not destroy it?
Epicurus

Shall we accept the good from God, and shall we not accept the evil?
Old Testament, Job 2:10

A man deprived of the freedom of evil would be an automaton of good.
Nikolai Berdyaev

Evil returns, like the finest dust thrown against the wind.
Buddha (Dhammapada, IX, 125)

There would be little evil in the world if it were not possible to do it in the name of good.
Maria Ebner-Eschenbach

Whoever seeks evil, it comes to him.
Proverbs of Solomon, 11:27

The paths of evil are more varied than the paths of good.
Thomas Aquinas

Man is evil by nature.
Immanuel Kant

In our nature, vicissitudes are not firm even in evil.
Gregory of Nyssa

All bad deeds are born of good intentions.
Sallust

If evil wins, it is declared good.
Arkady Davidovich

Moral of genetics: evil is dominant, good is recessive.
Jean Rostand

Perhaps our world was created so that evil could exist.
Jules Renard

Man has become too powerful to continue with evil. Excess power dooms to integrity.
Jean Rostand

One who is born of an evil father cannot be good.
Euripides

From what we receive good, from the same we can receive evil, as well as a means to avoid evil. So, for example, deep water is useful in many ways, but on the other hand, it is harmful, since there is a danger of drowning in it. At the same time, a means was found to avoid this danger - learning to swim.
Democritus

Being a good person means not only not doing injustice, but also not wanting it.
Democritus

Good is freedom. Only for freedom, or in freedom, is the difference between good and evil.
S. Kierkegaard

He who has done good to people is a good person; whoever suffered for the good he did, he is a very kind person; who accepted death for this, he reached the pinnacle of virtue, heroic and perfect.
J. La Bruyère

He who takes care of others is always full of self-confidence, like a man who seeks justice; begging or seeking something for himself, he is embarrassed and ashamed, like a man who begs for favors.
J. La Bruyère

Where good ends, evil begins, and where evil ends, good begins.
F. La Rochefoucauld

The benevolence with which people sometimes greet those who enter the world for the first time is usually caused by a secret envy of those who have long occupied a strong position in it.
F. La Rochefoucauld

We can consistently do good to our neighbors only when they believe that they cannot harm us with impunity.
F. La Rochefoucauld

As long as a person is able to do good, he is not in danger of encountering ingratitude.
F. La Rochefoucauld

For the most part, doing evil to people is not as dangerous as doing them too much good.
F. La Rochefoucauld

Everyone wants good. Don't give it away.
E. Lets

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad things, I feel bad. Here is my religion.
A. Lincoln

Things are good and evil only in relation to pleasure and pain. We call good what is capable of causing or increasing our pleasure or reducing our suffering ... Evil, on the contrary, we call what is capable of causing us or increasing some kind of suffering or reducing some kind of pleasure ...
D. Locke

The kindness of the Russian people in all its strata is expressed, by the way, in the absence of rancor.
N. Lossky

A tiny act of kindness is better than the most solemn promises to do the impossible.
T. Macaulay

I believe not so much in faith as in kindness, which is easy to do without faith and can even be a product of doubt.
T. Mann

To be kind enough, you have to be kind a little beyond measure.
P. Marivo

In yourself, within you is the source of goodness. It won't stop murmuring as you dig into it.
Marcus Aurelius


Marcus Aurelius

Even when a person in power wants to do good to one person, he inevitably does harm to another.

Kindness is what the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

He who speaks well, do nothing hostile to his word.
Menander

By doing good to a good person, we make him even better, but from the good deeds rendered to him, it becomes even angrier.
Michelangelo

When you do good, you yourself experience a certain joyful satisfaction and legitimate pride that accompanies a clear conscience.
M. Montaigne

Often vice itself pushes us to good deeds.
M. Montaigne

For those who have not comprehended the science of good, any other science brings only harm.
M. Montaigne

A great sign of kindness is the ability to forget the memories of others.
A. Morua

Kindness is a defensive reaction of humor to the tragic senselessness of fate.
S. Maugham

Goodwill is the attachment of a person to a person. Unknown Platonist
Good and evil, wealth and poverty, high and low, and all the names of values ​​- all this will become a weapon and will militantly assert that life must overcome itself again and again!
F. Nietzsche

Good and evil are distinguished from each other by a different hierarchy of passions and dominance of goals.
F. Nietzsche

As soon as we transgress the average measure of human kindness just one step, our actions arouse distrust. Virtue rests just "in the middle".
F. Nietzsche

The best thing about good deeds is the desire to hide them.
B. Pascal

Good in itself does not seem to be visible and convinces us only if it illuminates it. That is why the work of the artist is, bypassing the temptation of beautiful evil, to make beauty the sun of good.
G. Plekhanov

Good in the fight against evil gets dirty.
A. Underwater

A good name is like an inheritance from a father.
Publilius Sir

A kind word is better than wealth.
Publilius Sir


Publilius Sir

Evil is always faster than good.
Publilius Sir

In every person there is a spark of goodness that cannot be extinguished by the ashes of delusion, no matter how thick it may be. In every person there remains a particle of love and truth, no matter how much he is mired in atrocities, no matter how much he leaves the straight path.
A. Reihani

Good people should be trusted with reason, and not with an oath.

The true benefactor is not the one who has in mind payment, but the one who wants to do good.
Democritus

In doing good deeds, beware that the one to whom you are doing good deeds does not treacherously repay you with evil for good.
Democritus

Small services rendered in time are the greatest blessings to those who receive them.
Democritus

A good person is one who is able to repay another with kindness.
Plato

Don't do anything to him who says anything hostile to his word.
Menander

Good is repaid with good, and evil is repaid with evil.
Plautus Titus Maccius

It is just as dangerous for an evil person to do good as it is for a good person to do evil.
Plautus Titus Maccius

Everyone should be given as much good as, firstly, you yourself can do, and then as much as the one you love and help can accept.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Between the good, everything is good.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Who is good only in words, he is doubly unworthy.
Publilius Sir

Beneficence is measured not by size, but by good will, which is generated.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

A good example in a circle returns to the one who gave it, as bad examples fall on the head of the instigators of evil.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Whoever has done a good deed, let him be silent - let the one for whom it was done speak.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

No one writes good deeds on a calendar.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

He who does good to another does the most good to himself - not in the sense that he will be rewarded for this, but in the sense that the consciousness of the good done already gives great joy.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

A good man perishes only by becoming bad.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

There is no bad without good.
Pliny the Elder

Benefits are pleasant only when you know that you can repay them; when they are exorbitant, instead of gratitude, you repay them with hatred.
Tacitus Publius Cornelius

When you have done good to someone and this good has borne fruit, why do you, like a reckless one, seek more praise and reward for your good deed?
Marcus Aurelius

To attach one good deed to another so closely that there is not the slightest gap between them is what I call enjoying life.
Marcus Aurelius

The good deed of a robber is not to kill.
Unknown author

Beneficence does not consist in what is given, but in the soul.
Unknown author

Benefits are not imposed.
Unknown author

Benefits are not hidden.
Unknown author

Doubly gives the one who gives quickly.
Unknown author

And the good (good) the older the better.
Unknown author

The fall of the good is the most evil fall.
Unknown author

In this world he rejoices, and in another he rejoices; in both worlds he who does good rejoices. "Good done by me!" he exults. He rejoices even more when he achieves happiness.
"Dhammapada"

Nothing encourages a person like a kind word.
Saying of an Indian unknown author Pay for evil with sincerity, and pay for good with good.
(Kung Tzu)

Whoever repays good with evil, evil will not depart from his house.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Strive to do good to everyone, and not to yourself alone.
Gregory of Nazianzus

Whoever strives for good must be prepared for evil.
John of Damascus

When you do good to someone, notice that while doing a good deed you will receive the same pleasure that that person will receive.
Unsur al-Maali

Be kind to those who depend on you.
Farid al-Din Attar

Doing good to bad people is the same as doing bad to good people.
Muhammad Babur

When, doing good, you do not think about yourself or others, a handful of grains will bestow mercy for a thousand poods of bread. When, helping others, you boast of your generosity and demand gratitude from people, then a hundred gold pieces will not benefit you even half a copper.
Hong Zicheng

He who does good to others, himself from this tastes joy.
Margaret of Navarre

People by nature are such that they are no less attached to those who
they have done good to themselves than to those who have done good to them.
Niccolo Machiavelli

He who does good to a friend does good to himself.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

The collection includes phrases and quotes about good and evil:

  • To get their way, bad people only need good people to watch from the sidelines and do nothing. John Stuart Mill
  • From what we get good, from the same we can get evil, and also a means to avoid evil. So, for example, deep water is useful in many ways, but on the other hand, it is harmful, since there is a danger of drowning in it. At the same time, a means was found to avoid this danger - learning to swim. Democritus
  • Than kind, but stupid, better evil, but smart. Lak proverb
  • Without kindness, true joy is impossible. Thomas Carlyle
  • A man deprived of the freedom of evil would be an automaton of good. Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Benefits are pleasant only when you know that you can repay them; when they are exorbitant, instead of gratitude, you repay them with hatred. Tacitus Publius Cornelius
  • Man is evil by nature. Immanuel Kant
  • A fragrant paradise is open for those who are famous for their good deeds. Persian proverb
  • A good person is one who is able to repay another with kindness. Plato
  • Be kind to everyone, but remember that not everyone is kind to you. Veselin Georgiev
  • Do not tell a wise man - he will find out, do not ask kindly - he will give. Bashkir proverb
  • It is very difficult to be kind in adversity, and whoever is capable of such a thing will certainly achieve happiness. Georgy Alexandrov
  • He who takes care of others is always full of self-confidence, like a man who seeks justice; begging or seeking something for himself, he is embarrassed and ashamed, like a man who begs for favors. J. La Bruyère
  • Only those few who do it believe in goodness. Maria Ebner-Eschenbach
  • He who does good to another does the most good to himself - not in the sense that he will be rewarded for this, but in the sense that the consciousness of the good done already gives great joy. Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
  • In whom there is no good, there is little truth in that. Russian proverb
  • For those who have not comprehended the science of good, any other science brings only harm. M. Montaigne
  • Good deeds are based on good order. Edmund Burke
  • To those who do evil, do it pleasantly so that they themselves would be even more unpleasant from what they have done. Leonid S. Sukhorukov
  • In yourself, within you is the source of goodness. It won't stop murmuring as you dig into it. Marcus Aurelius
  • The degree of generosity does not depend on how much we give to others, but how much we expect from them in return. Leonid S. Sukhorukov
  • A great sign of kindness is the ability to forget the memories of others. A. Morua
  • Strive to do good to everyone, and not to yourself alone. Gregory of Nazianzus
  • The greatest good you can do for another is not only to share your riches with him, but to open his own riches to him. Benjamin Disraeli
  • The weak is unwillingly kind. Abkhaz proverb
  • Fun is the sky under which everything blooms except malice. J.P. Richter
  • The paths of evil are more varied than the paths of good. Thomas Aquinas
  • In the inner world of man, kindness is the sun. Victor Marie Hugo
  • Everything can be resisted, but not against kindness. Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • Perhaps our world was created so that evil could exist. Jules Renard
  • For the most part, doing evil to people is not as dangerous as doing them too much good. François de La Rochefoucauld
  • Susceptibility - the ability to feel in someone else's own. Alexander Kruglov
  • The principle of non-violence has been defeated. An even more crushing defeat was perhaps the principle of violence. Baez Joan, American singer
  • All bad deeds are born of good intentions. Sallust
  • A persistent and fruitful evil must be countered by slow and persistent work: not to destroy it. but so that it does not overcome us. Seneca
  • Everyone praises their kindness, but no one dares to praise his intelligence. François de La Rochefoucauld
  • Try to be even a little kinder, and you will find that you will not be able to commit a bad deed. Confucius
  • Always look for a way to do good. Albert Schweitzer
  • Genuine kindness grows from the heart of a person. All people are born good. Confucius
  • They say that love is blind, but kindness must be conscious. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rarely does good go unpunished. Veselin Georgiev
  • Even when a person in power wants to do good to one person, he inevitably does harm to another. Mark Twain
  • Obviously, everyone wants the best for you, but they are guided by the residual principle. Alexander Mikheev
  • Do good on the sly and be ashamed to flaunt it. Alexander Pope
  • Nothing goes out of good hands. Russian proverb
  • Doing good is also a science: sheep-sheep, wolf-wolves, man-human. Ishkhan Gevorgyan
  • The most dangerous of all is a man who is unable to harm a fly: he will not dare to offend a scorpion. Grigory Landau
  • By doing good to a good person, we make him even better, but the evil one becomes even angrier from the good deeds rendered to him. Michelangelo
  • Usually good is done without much effort. Georgy Alexandrov
  • Kindness is like a superlative degree of good, it is like a very useful good. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
  • Nothing releases the potential for good with such force as self-sacrifice for the sake of good. George Santayana
  • Kindness is the superlative degree of goodness. Nikolay Chernyshevsky
  • There is no righteous person on earth who does good and does not sin. King Solomon - Proverbs
  • Good in the fight against evil gets dirty. A. Underwater
  • Often vice itself pushes us to good deeds. M. Montaigne
  • He who speaks well, do nothing hostile to his word. Menander
  • Some believe that they have a good heart, although in reality they have only weak nerves. Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Good for a person is the active use of the abilities of his soul in accordance with high dignity or virtue. Aristotle
  • With gentle words and kindness, you can lead an elephant by a thread. M. Saadi
  • Good and evil are distinguished from each other by a different hierarchy of passions and dominance of goals. F. Nietzsche
  • Do not miss an opportunity to do good - if it does not threaten you with great harm. Mark Twain
  • Good can be given in small parts, but it will not decrease from this. Zeno of China
  • I believe not so much in faith as in kindness, which is easy to do without faith and can even be a product of doubt. T. Mann
  • Kindness, like a boomerang, sometimes returns if no one is struck. Valery Afonchenko
  • One who is born of an evil father cannot be good. Euripides

  •  The good done to your neighbor will only be properly appreciated if you are asked about it. NN 4 Humor
  • Not all successful people are good, but the good ones are so successful. Mikhail Mamchich
  • Goodness is a defensive reaction of humor to the tragic senselessness of fate. Somerset Maugham
  • Our virtues are most often disguised vices. François de La Rochefoucauld
  • A virtuous person does good regardless of retribution. Veselin Georgiev
  • Real kindness without reciprocity is not offended, but sad. Ishkhan Gevorgyan
  • A good name is like an inheritance from a father. Publilius Sir
  • We are not pacifists - we are soldiers of non-violence. Baez Joan, American singer
  • Being kind to people can change lives. All that is needed is to put this attitude into words. Margaret Cousins
  • We are as kind as we can and are obliged to beat them. Ishkhan Gevorgyan
  • A kind word lowers the saber. Lak proverb
  • Moral of genetics: evil is dominant, good is recessive. Jean Rostand
  • It is easier for a kind person to be happy: he can warm himself by someone else's light. Valentin Borisov
  • Many have to be respected not because they do good, but because they do not bring evil. Claude Adrian Helvetius
  • Kindness is a defensive reaction of humor to the tragic senselessness of fate. S. Maugham
  • Small services rendered in time are the greatest blessings to those who receive them. Democritus
  • Kindness comes from milk. Ishkhan Gevorgyan
  • People by nature are such that they are no less attached to those to whom they have done good themselves than to those who have done good to them. Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Kindness is the noblest weapon. Thomas Fuller
  • The best thing about good deeds is the desire to hide them. B. Pascal
  • Kindness is so simple: always live for the sake of others and never seek only personal gain. Dag Hammarskjöld
  • Unattractive in face, but kind in heart. Vietnamese proverb
  • Kindness is a language that the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear. P. bovy
  • Whoever strives for good must be ready to endure evil. John of Damascus
  • Kindness in the soul is the best advocate. Valentina Bednova
  • He who has done a good deed, let him be silent - let the one for whom it was done speak. Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
  • Kindness will always prevail over beauty. Heinrich Heine
  • Who is good only in words, he is doubly unworthy. Publilius Sir
  • Kindness is for the soul what health is for the body: it is invisible when you own it, and it gives success in every business. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • When, doing good, you do not think about yourself or others, a handful of grains will bestow mercy for a thousand poods of bread. When, helping others, you boast of your generosity and demand gratitude from people, then a hundred gold pieces will not benefit you even half a copper. Hong Zicheng
  • Kindness is better than beauty. Heinrich Heine
  • When you have decent goodness, it is not difficult to be respectable. Yefim Shpigel
  • Kindness breeds kindness. Mark Thulius Cicero
  • When you do good, you yourself experience a certain joyful satisfaction and legitimate pride that accompanies a clear conscience. M. Montaigne
  • Kindness of the heart is better than generosity. Mongolian proverb
  • When you do good to someone, notice that while doing a good deed you will receive the same pleasure that that person will receive. Unsur al-Maali
  • Kindness can often cause harm, so when you want to do good, think carefully. Hong Zicheng
  • How unreasonable a person is when, from the good that he has, he is still looking for another. Not content with what he has, and chasing after more, a person loses what he had. Margaret of Navarre
  • Good morals matter more than good laws. Tacitus Publius Cornelius
  • The true benefactor is not the one who has in mind payment, but the one who wants to do good. Democritus
  • A kind and honest person is the strength of our heart. Tajik proverb
  • True virtue does not need a word. Tajik proverb
  • A good example in a circle returns to the one who gave it, as bad examples fall on the head of the instigators of evil. Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
  • Of all the virtues and virtues of the soul, the greatest virtue is kindness. Francis Bacon
  • A good person is not one who knows how to do good, but one who does not know how to do evil. Quotes about kindness, author Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky.
  • Good abuse. Arkady Davidovich
  • A kind word often accomplishes what cannot be achieved by any other means. B. S. Forbes
  • The one who wants good is like the one who does good. Arabic proverb
  • Above all titles is a good heart. Alfred Tennyson
  • There are two moralities: one is passive, forbidding doing evil, the other is active, which commands doing good. Pierre Buast
  • If the good that we leave behind spreads far, the memory of it will not fail. Hong Zicheng
  • If you are very kind, you will never rise above people ... except on the cross. Stas Yankovsky
  • If a return address is hanging on the tail of kindness, then they need you, find them. Ishkhan Gevorgyan
  • If small actions are neglected, it can interfere with great virtue. Chinese proverb
  • If evil wins, it is declared good. Arkady Davidovich
  • Natural kindness is an exceptionally valuable quality. Johnson Samuel
  • If kindness should be with fists, then fists with brass knuckles. Arkady Davidovich
  • Is there faith in good without faith in evil? Without a doubt! And with doubt is a life with faith in good and evil at the same time. Elena Ermolova
  • There are many good people in the world, but there are far fewer who are ready to share their good. Oleg Kuznetsov
  • Infect and heal with kindness. Denisenko Oleg
  • Good people should be trusted by word and reason, not by oath. Socrates
  • And shame is good when a good deed is done. Publilius Sir
  • A kind person is not necessarily a happy person, but a happy person is always kind. Architas Yarentsky
  • From the hands of the good you will take bitter fruit, like sweetness. Persian proverb
  • A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is a gift of fortune, and the former is a gift of nature. Joseph Addison
  • True kindness presupposes the ability to imagine the sufferings and joys of other people as one's own. André Gide
  • Kind words leave a wonderful imprint in the souls of people. They soften, comfort and heal the heart of the one who hears them. Blaise Pascal
  • Everyone needs to do as much good as, firstly, you yourself can do, and then as much as the one you love and whom you help can accept. Mark Thulius Cicero
  • Good deeds should never be put off: any delay is imprudent and often dangerous. Miguel Cervantes
  • What a necessary spice to everything is kindness. The best qualities are worthless without kindness, and the worst vices are easily forgiven. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • Kindness is made up of loving people. Joseph Joubert
  • When good people die, their kindness does not die with them, but continues to live after death. Euripides
  • The kindness of the Russian people in all its strata is expressed, by the way, in the absence of rancor. N. Lossky
  • When you have done good to someone and this good has borne fruit, why do you, like a reckless one, seek more praise and reward for your good deed? Marcus Aurelius
  • Kindness does not come from owning many things; on the contrary, only kindness turns a person's possessions into dignity. Socrates
  • When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad things, I feel bad. Here is my religion. A. Lincoln
  • Kindness is contagious, but many people are naturally immune to it. Ilya Shevelev
  • A tiny act of kindness is better than the most solemn promises to do the impossible. T. Macaulay
  • Kindness makes it possible to command people. Confucius
  • Who is kinder is smarter. Olga Muravieva
  • Kindness in a woman, not seductive looks will win my love. William Shakespeare
  • He who has done good to people is a good person; whoever suffered for the good he did, he is a very kind person; who accepted death for this, he reached the pinnacle of virtue, heroic and perfect. J. La Bruyère
  • Kindness without reason is empty. Russian proverb
  • Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands literally tied, can do an abyss of good. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  • Kindness is what the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
  • It is better to do one good deed than to say a hundred kind words. Veselin Georgiev
  • Kindness is the only garment that never wears out. Henry David Thoreau
  • People are no less attached to those whom they have done good than to those who have done good to them. Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Kindness is the sunshine under which the flower of virtue blooms. Robert Ingersoll
  • It is not enough to pretend to be kind, it is also necessary that those around you pretend to be grateful for the kindness. Gennady Malkin
  • Kindness is a quality, the excess of which does not harm. John Galsworthy
  • Mercy begins at home. If you need to go somewhere to show mercy. What you want to show is hardly mercy. "Reading Circle"
  • Kindness is the only value in this illusory world that can be an end in itself. Somerset Maugham
  • My grandfather said "do good and throw it into the water" Cartoon "Good Eeh"
  • The benevolence with which people sometimes greet those who enter the world for the first time is usually caused by a secret envy of those who have long occupied a strong position in it. F. La Rochefoucauld
  • Wise words often fall on barren ground, but a good word is never wasted. Sir Arthur Helps
  • A kind word is better than wealth. Publilius Sir
  • We are as kind as we are able to tame the animal that is within us. Zdenko Domancic
  • A good intention is worth something in itself. English proverb
  • In the world, only by our kindness the sediment is removed and vinegar turns into wine. Persian proverb
  • Good is beauty in action. Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • In our nature, vicissitudes are not firm even in evil. Gregory of Nyssa
  • Virtue is courageous, and goodness never fears. William Shakespeare
  • Our good qualities harm us more in life than bad ones. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • Good done in secret is rewarded openly. Japanese proverb
  • Not all good is good for everyone. Veselin Georgiev
  • The good that you do from the heart, you always do to yourself. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • Do not pounce on goodness - it may turn out to be with fists. Valentina Bednova
  • Goodness in itself does not seem to be visible and convinces us only if its beauty illuminates it. That is why the work of the artist is, bypassing the temptation of beautiful evil, to make beauty the sun of good. G. Plekhanov