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Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

by Jordan B. Peterson

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“If what you want, ... is to get rich quickly, then you'll never get rich; but if you want to get rich without asking about time, you'll get rich quickly.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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“We're all stupid, chasing after vanity!" ... "Really, it comes from idleness! Everything's near, everything's close at hand, yet we run to some far-off kingdom. Is it not life, if one is occupied, be it even in a remote corner? The pleasure indeed consists in labor. And nothing's sweeter than the fruit of one's own labors . . .”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

tags: idleness, labor, vanity

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“To my thinking there is no vermin in the world worse than a thief. Another takes what you can spare, but a thief steals the work of your hands, the sweat of your brow, your time ...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, An Honest Thief

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“... with thousands it's hard to be quite sinless, but to make millions is easy. A millionaire has no need to resort to crooked ways. Just go on and take the straight road, take all that lies before you! No one else will pick it up.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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“They could not even imagine it in definite form and shape, but, strange and wonderful to relate, though they lost all faith in their past happiness and called it a legend, they so longed to be happy and innocent once more that they succumbed to this desire like children, made an idol of it, set up temples and worshipped their own idea, their own desire; though at the same time they fully believed that it was unattainable and could not be realised, yet they bowed down to it and adored it with tears! Nevertheless, if it could have happened that they had returned to the innocent and happy condition which they had lost, and if someone had shown it to them again and had asked them whether they wanted to go back to it, they would certainly have refused.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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