Let us become servants in order to be leaders.
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he ha...
I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I had told you. Because I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I reall...
God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life!
The important thing is not to lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he cease...
And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is not the free choice of the heart that matters, and not love, but the mystery, which they must blindly...
…Ëndërrimtari, po t’i bëjmë një përkufizim të hollësishëm, nuk është njeri, por, si me thënë, një krijesë e gjinisë së mesme. Gjallon të shumtën e kohës në ndonjë kënd të humbur, a thua se i fshihet e...
لماذا تبدو لهم فعلتي شاذة إلى هذا الحد؟ ألا انها جريمة؟ ماذا تعني كلمة جريمة؟ إن ضميري مرتاح. صحيح أن جريمة قد وقعت. صحيح أن نص القانون قد اخترق وأن دما قد سفك. فإذا كان الأمر أمر تقيد بنص القانون فأق...
Warn you that my friend is a compound personality, and therefore it is difficult to blame him as an individual.
It's as if I'm afraid to spoil the charm of what has only just passed by a serious book or some serious occupation. As if this ugly dream and all the impressions it left behind are so dear to me that...
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which i...
Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the undergr...
The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan.
Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.
Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.
I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave.
I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?''Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless...
Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder...
Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?