Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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 live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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