The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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