Fyodor Dostoevsky

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. ”

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. ”

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! ”

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. ”

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. ”

The soul is healed by being with children. ”

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. ”

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

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ”

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ”