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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Intelligent, People, Well Known
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.269, Oxford Paperbacks

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Men, Suffering
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2102, e-artnow

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Independent, Punishment, Way
"Crime and Punishment".

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Beautiful, Memories

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Hate, Love Is
"The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Feet, Bears, Safe
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.452, Google Publishing

Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Giving Up, Luxury, Easy

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prayer, Giving, Feelings
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.756, Clap Publishing, LLC.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Love Is, Suffering
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Power, Feet, Matter

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Hands, Cowardice
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Heart, Character
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Literature, Months
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fear, People, Steps

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jesus, Believe, Perfect

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Conscience, Appease

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Desire, Show Me, Something Better
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.126, Modern Library

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Religious, Nature
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.758, Clap Publishing, LLC.

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atheist, Doe, Ifs
"My heroes are driven by God, but I'm glad my society isn't" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2005.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Art, Firsts, Existence

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, God, Soul
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.56, Macmillan

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Law, Wish, Care
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ends, Unlimited, Despotism

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Believe, Men, Ungrateful

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Life, Respect
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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