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Wells Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- If the person laughs well, they are a good person.
- If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
- 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…
- If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's…
- Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking,…
- To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
- And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for…
- I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is…
- Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me…
- Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.
- And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well…
- I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was…
- One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not…
- Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as…
- People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well…
- But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
- And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong