It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Beauty will save the world.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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