Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Nada hay en el mundo más difícil de mantener que la franqueza ni nada más cómodo que la adulación. Si en la franqueza se desliza la menor nota falsa, se produce inmediatamente una disonancia y, con ella, el escándalo. En cambio, la adulación, a pesar de su falsedad, resulta siempre agradable y es recibida con placer, un placer vulgar si usted quiere, pero que no deja ser real. Además, la lisonja, por burda que sea nos hace creer siempre que encierra una parte de verdad. Esto es así para todas las esferas sociales y todos los grados de cultura. Incluso la más pura vestal es sensible a la adulación. De la gente vulgar no hablemos.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.