Book: Idiot. Page 16

Telling the truth only to those who have no wit.

Is a coward someone who is afraid and runs away; and who fears and not running, he is still not a coward.

A fool with a heart and no mind is the same poor fool as a fool with a mind and no heart.

Child can all say, quot; I was always struck by the thought how bad large know children, mothers and fathers, even their children? From children nothing to conceal, under the pretext that they are small and that they used to know. What a sad and unfortunate idea!

Take note, dear Prince, that there is nothing more offensive to a man of our time and tribe as to tell him that he is not original, weak character, with no special talents and ordinary people.

Beauty will save the world.

In abstract love of humanity is almost always a love themselves.

I do not recognize judges over them and know that I am now beyond any power of the court. More recently, he made me laugh a supposition: what if I suddenly decided now to kill anyone, at least ten people at once, or to do something most horrible looking thing is the most terrible in this world, in what a trouble would have been put before me the court with my two-three weeks time and with the destruction of tortures? I should die comfortably in their own hospital -- in a warm and attentive doctor, and may be much more comfortable and warmer than at home. I don't understand why people in the same as I do, the situation does not come the same idea in his head, even if only for a joke? Maybe, however, comes; cheerful people and we have many will be found.

In recent years, and it tormented me all of this was naturally, people are created to each other.

The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in humanity!

Inventors and geniuses are almost always at the beginning of his career (and very often at the end) was considered in society as nothing but a fool - that's the routine remark, too known to all.