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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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VERDA ROSS That’s a wonderful story.”
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YUGOSLAV PROVERB If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
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FRANZ KAFKA If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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G. K. CHESTERTON It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we lau...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of actio...
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RACHEL BILSON A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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CHARBEL TADROS Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
RALPH STEADMAN I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
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STANESS JONEKOS A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
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KARRINE STEFFANS If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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BROOKE NEVIN A man is NOT weak if he cries. A man is NOT a punk if he cries. A man is NOT acting like a little b*...
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Without God all things are permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. W...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY God knows what is in me in place of me.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and var...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - th...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extrem...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY What do you think?" shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" M...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all t...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY When reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distingui...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; h...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man does not live by bread alone.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst ch...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of dou...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every rig...
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