To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYKilling myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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