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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #2
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #4
    Erasmus
    “He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #5
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #6
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #7
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #8
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #9
    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    Epicurus

  • #10
    Marquis de Sade
    “Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”
    Marquis De Sade

  • #11
    Marquis de Sade
    “In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
    Marquis de Sade

  • #12
    Marquis de Sade
    “Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.”
    Marquis de Sade

  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #14
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #15
    Ernest Hemingway
    “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never confuse movement with action.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #17
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”
    Abraham Joshua Heschel

  • #18
    C.S. Lewis
    “Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #19
    C.S. Lewis
    “Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #20
    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

  • #21
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
    Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • #22
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #23
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #24
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #26
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
    Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

  • #27
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #28
    Lars von Trier
    “Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I’ve always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That’s perhaps my only sin.”
    Lars Von Trier

  • #29
    Albert Camus
    “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
    Albert Camus

  • #30
    “Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".”
    Richard O. Moore, Writing the Silences



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