Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

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

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.