“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky · Happiness quote

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky quote card
Writer · 1821 – 1881

Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

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