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Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.”

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A renowned Russian novelist and a pioneer of psychological novels. His works deeply reveal the complexity of human nature and the injustice of society, having a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having foolishly divided the heaven into parts, you should be anxious as to the quarter from which the flying flame may come, or to what region it may betake itself; and tremble to think how it penetrates through walled enclosures, and how, having exercised its power, it extricates itself from them. Of which phenomena the multitude can by no means see the causes, and think that they are accomplished by supernatural power.”

Source: On the Nature of Things

“Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed; Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.”

Men Beautiful Strong Wealth Gold Train

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.”

Knows Men Mean Would Be Able Religious Fiction Poet Limits Eternal Punishment Fixed Woe Resisting Menace

Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things

Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things

“It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.”

Easier Snares

Book:The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus

Source: The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus

“First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.”

Men Mind Firsts Whole Hands Government Eye Life Is Animal Feet Intellect Portions Hands And Feet

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.”

Men Too Much

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

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