Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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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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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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