# Quote — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

> If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.

- Author: [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md)
- Book: [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/if-i-seem

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> If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like?

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/if-there-is-no-immortality.md)

> ‘No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/no-one-but.md)

> Faith is not in power but in truth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/faith-is-not.md)