It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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