The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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