The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Compassion is the chief and perhaps the only law of being for all mankind.

a certain dullness of mind, it seems, is almost a necessary quality, if not of every active man, at least of every serious maker of money.

For the limited “usual” man, for instance, there is nothing easier than to imagine himself an unusual and original man and to revel in it without any hesitation.