“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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
“It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“People only count their misfortunes; their good luck they take no account of. But if they were to take everything into account, as they should, they'd find that they had their fair share of it. ”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky