Quotes by : Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but....

The soul is healed by being with children.

On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love....

Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them....

Why is it that a convict never saves his money? Well, not only is it difficult for him to keep it, but....

Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity....

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive....

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with....

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures....

There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to....