There's something here, my dear boy, that you don't understand yet. A man will fall in love with some beauty, with a woman's body, or even a part of a woman's body (a sensualist can understand that) a...
Money equalizes all inequalities.
I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
Crezi că n-am s-o iubesc toată viața?- Eu cred că o vei iubi până la capătul vieții, dar nu te vei simți mereu la fel de fericit lângă ea...
Видишь, я тогда все се-бя спрашивал: зачем я так глуп, что если другие глу-пы и коли я знаю уж наверно, что они глупы, то самне хочу быть умнее? Потом я узнал, Соня, что еслиждать, пока все станут умн...
Young man, he went on, raising his head again, in your face I seem to read some trouble of mind. When you came in I read it, and that was why I addressed you at once. For in unfolding to you the story...
The world says: You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more. This is the worldly...
My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmetic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking? To be sure, I won't break through such a wall with my f...
Money is the honey of humanity.
Love equates people
Change is what people fear most.
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
My brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the...
Let us become servants in order to be leaders.
Las desgracias ajenas no nos instruyen.
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
I don't know whether the spider perhaps does not hate the fly he has marked and is snaring. Dear little fly! It seems to me that the victim is loved, or at least may be loved. Here I love my enemy. I...
During these three months I have gone through much; I mean, I have gone through much in myself; and now there are the things I am going to see and go through. There will be much to be written.
Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.The Brothers KaramazovMitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret.