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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Laughter, Men, Laughing

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life Changing, Intelligence, Crime And Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.235, Vintage

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hard Work, Love Is, Long
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). “Brothers Karamazov”, p.428, Bantam Classics

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Evil, Politics, Easier
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dream, Fall, Autumn

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Confidence, Respect, Self Esteem
"The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Thinking, Creating
1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness, Laughter, Joy
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hero, Everyday, Masters

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Numbers, Wealth, Can Do

The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suicide, Believe, Envy
"The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (p. 2151), 1874.

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Climbing, Challenges, Suffering

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paradise, Life Is, Refuse
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Matter, Able, Dare

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Meaningful, Work, Men
"Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose". Book by Ken Davis (p. 31), 1995.

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hell, Hopelessness, Entrances

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Earth, Rational, Happens

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Serenity, Age
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.201, Google Publishing

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Blood, Levels

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Criminals, Citizens, Prison

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Proof, Hundred, Suspicion
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.444, Google Publishing

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Animal, People
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Spiritual, Children
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Being Happy, Gratitude, Men
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Horse, Rabbits, Hundred
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment: English and Russian, Illustrated”, p.708

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