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May Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he…
- ...chance may do anything.
- After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning…
- I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world…
- 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…
- You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a…
- And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I…
- I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a…
- I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more,…
- At some thoughts one stands perplexed - especially at the sight of men's sin - and wonders whether one should use force or humble love.…
- Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on…
- The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't…
- Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What…
- What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
- I want to suffer so that I may love.
- Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.…
- Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
- Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though…
- Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends…
- I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you…
- they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our…
- May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a…
- Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong