Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

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Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

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My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

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They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

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Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

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We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

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Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

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Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

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The superior man limits his achievements.

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In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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