47 Quotations by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 1. A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
- 2. A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far be ...
- 3. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
- 4. Change is what people fear most.
- 5. Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
- 6. Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence. They go stark, raving ma ...
- 7. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it whic ...
- 8. Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
- 9. If there is no God, everything is permitted.
- 10. If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a ...
- 11. If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by ...
- 12. Is it not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
- 13. It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- character, the heart, generous ...
- 14. It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits h ...
- 15. It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
- 16. Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and e ...
- 17. Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
- 18. Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything.
- 19. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ou ...
- 20. Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gr ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes by Power Quotations
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