Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Pride Quotes, Greatness Quotes

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

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In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

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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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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

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In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

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Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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Beauty would save the world.

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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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And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

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If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

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If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

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I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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