It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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