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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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