“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky“A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky“Realists do not fear the results of their study.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky“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“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky