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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote - If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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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Cease Distinguish Himself Lie Listen Love Man Respect Truth Yourself
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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Amaze Love Mankind Particular
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Call Clever Fools Himself Man Opinion
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Break Pleasant Right Time Wrong
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Children Healing Soul
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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God One Liner Permit
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Action Comparison Dreams Harsh Love
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Act Genius Intelligence
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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Brain Character Guide Heart Ideas Progress Quality
Man 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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Human Being Life Man Mystery Need Philosophy Want
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Acknowledgement Conscience Man Punishment Suffering
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Fools Happiness Paradise Unhappy Worse
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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Earth Heart Inevitable Intelligence Pain Sad Suffering
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Easy Flatter Honesty Integrity Speak Truth World
Beauty will save the world.
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Beauty One Liner Save World
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Break Up Love Suffering
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Difficult Doer Easy Evil Understand
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Human Nature One Liner Sincere Stupidity
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Bow Humanity Suffering
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Capable Misery People Reciculous Terrible
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Extraordinary Love Man Passionate Suffering
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Alone Loneliness Thought
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Couple God Intend Love
When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Devil Help One Liner Reason
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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Alive Existence Finding Human Live Mystery
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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Advice Inspirational Life Path Wrong
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Civilization Degree Enter Judgment Prison Society

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