We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.
("The Idiot")
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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
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Hate not those who reject you, who insult you, who abuse and slander you. Hate not the atheists, the teachers of evil, the materialists--and I mean not only the good ones--for there are many good ones among them, especially in our day--hate not even the wicked ones.
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