Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
("War and Peace")
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We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.Leo Tolstoy
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.
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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery
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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
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