Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”

“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”

“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”

“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”

“Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.”

“One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.”

“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”

“Realists do not fear the results of their study.”

“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.”

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”