When reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan 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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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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