It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.
Fyodor DostoevskyI swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
Fyodor DostoevskyNothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky