The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBeauty will save the world.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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