Character Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend…

— Karlfried Graf Durckheim

“Human beings live for only a short time, and when a man is harsh himself, and his mind knows harsh thoughts, all men pray…

— Homer

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“One result of turning a blind eye to the horrors of the world, because you can stand only so much, is that you end…

— Michele Fitoussi

“His life was crowded , public and impersonal as a city square. The friend of humanity had no single private friend. People came to…

— Ayn Rand

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“He who has a thousand friends     has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy     shall meet him everywhere.”

— Warren W. Wiersbe

“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal…

— Anton Chekhov

“Eternal Friend, help me to be thoughtful and to resist committing acts that are evil in Your eyes. Whatever sins I have committed, please…

— Ángeles Arrien

“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they are, have…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery,…

— Henry Fielding