Miguel Bacaoco

“Nevertheless, vanity and conceit are defects from which scarcely any convict is exempt.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

“Money is a kind of freedom that can be felt and heard; it is an inestimable treasure for a man entirely deprived of true liberty.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Why is it that a convict never saves his money? Well, not only is it difficult for him to keep it, but prison life is so miserable that a man, of his very nature, thirsts for freedom of action. His position in society makes him so irregular a being that the idea of swallowing up his capital in orgies, of intoxicating himself with revelry, seems to him quite natural if only he can procure himself one moment's forgetfulness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

“Education has nothing whatever to do with moral deterioration; and if one must admit that it develops a resolute spirit among the people, that is far from being a defect.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead