Laura

“Willarski was a married man with a family, busy with his family affairs, his wife’s affairs, and his official duties. He regarded all these occupations as hindrances to life, and considered that they were all contemptible because their aim was the welfare of himself and his family.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“the more tightly people are bound into a community that has the moral authority to restrain their desires, the less likely they are to kill themselves.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“this general flight has been arranged to get all the old maids married off.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace