To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. Notes from Underground
“The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.” The Prince
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. The Kreutzer Sonata
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. Meditations
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