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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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