Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.Fyodor Dostoevsky
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.Anton Chekhov
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.Jane Austen
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.Marcel Proust
