Collected Meditations
Showing 27 quotesHappiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Happiness
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Happiness
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Good
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Money