A Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Trifles, trifles are what matter! — © Fyodor Dostoevsky
Trifles, trifles are what matter!
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.
Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
We must not stand upon trifles.
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
Men are led by trifles.
Men are lead by trifles.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Trifles make the sum of life.
Character demonstrates itself in trifles.
Small minds are captivated by trifles.
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