“Life is now given to man at the cost of pain and fear. Here, they are blinded by this sometimes. Now man is not yet that man. There will be another, new person, happy and proud, and for him it wouldn’t matter the death-life. He who overcomes pain and fear will become God himself. There will not be that God any longer.”
― Demons
― Demons
“It is necessary that men, governed by their own feelings, find sensual delight in virtue.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“... questions which weren't solved by diplomats, would be less solved with powder and blood.”
― The Sebastopol Sketches
― The Sebastopol Sketches
“People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them. —BLAISE PASCAL”
― A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
― A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“blessed are the poor, the humble, the kind, the generous.”
― Where Love Is There God Is Also
― Where Love Is There God Is Also
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