But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
("Anna Karenina")
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When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?Leo Tolstoy
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
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One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.
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We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
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At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.
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