Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

• The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for.
• The soul is healed by being with children.
• The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
• It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
• Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
• A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.