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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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    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
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Tolstoy Leo
    tags: inspirational
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
    ― Ivan S. Turgenev, Rudin
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    Alexander Pushkin
    “I want to understand you,
    I study your obscure language.”
    ― Alexander Pushkin
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
    tags: gogol, heroes, laughter, life, nikolai, tears
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
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    Sun Tzu
    “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
    ― Sun Tzu
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    “The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.”
    ― Wang Yang-Ming
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: philosophy
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses
    tags: driving-forces, hate, impulses, love, men
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: comprehension, intellect, intelligence, knowledge, philosophy, use
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”
    ― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli
    tags: cynicism, dire
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Confucius
    “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: education, inspirational, life, perseverance
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    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: complexity, philosophy, simplicity
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    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    ― Confucius
    tags: funny, people, sad
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    Confucius
    “Study the past if you would define the future.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy
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    Confucius
    “To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: forgiveness, grudges
    1137 likes



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