I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
Fyodor DostoevskyLove a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
Fyodor DostoevskySometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
Fyodor DostoevskyYou see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupidโand I know they areโyet I won't be wiser?
Fyodor DostoevskyOne can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.
Fyodor Dostoevsky