It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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