The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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 is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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