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Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881)

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. Fyodor Dostoevsky »
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. Fyodor Dostoevsky »
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky »
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea. Fyodor Dostoevsky »
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Fyodor Dostoevsky »
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky »
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. Fyodor Dostoevsky »

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