Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov.

My attitude toward death isn’t fear at all; it’s intense curiosity.

The consequences of lying are far more unpleasant and poisonous than the unpleasantness we think we’re escaping when we lie.

Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you.

You cause great harm when you lie to others, but it’s most harmful of all to lie to yourself.

MENTAL MODELS

A wise person never wants to change his earthly life, because he’s always happy with the life he’s living.

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If you want to be free, first of all free yourself from your stomach.

Don’t think that a person can instantly free himself from evil by exerting effort. Effort is only real when it’s continuous. If you fall, get up and keep going. And no matter how many times you fall, don’t lose heart and don’t stop trying.

There’s no reason to pity a person if he dies or loses his money, if he has no home or property, because none of those things belong to man. But there’s reason for pity if a person loses his one true possession, his highest blessing: his ability to love.

The greater your desire to speak, the greater the danger that you’ll say something stupid.

The majority of human actions aren’t a result of reason, or even of emotion, but of mindless imitation.

If there’s life after death then it’s something we can’t imagine.

PHILOSOPHY

In order to live a good life you have to place truth above everything else, so that you don’t fear speaking the truth even if the truth harms you as you speak.

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Love is only love when it’s a sacrifice.

Only when you see yourself in every other person will you understand your own life.

If you’re arguing with someone, try to stop, do nothing and say nothing, but only think about how the dispute started, and frequently all you have to do is think and you’ll realize you’re arguing over nothing.

To forgive doesn’t mean to say, “I forgive you,” but to tear from your heart every reproach and shred of anger against the person who hurt you.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the human heart that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.