The characteristics of our romantics are to understand everything, to see everything and to see it often incomparably more clearly than our most realistic minds see it; to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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