Truth like gold is to be obtained not by its growth but by washing away from it all that is not gol

Truth like gold is to be obtained not by its growth but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Author: Leo Tolstoy

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If you want to be happy, be.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Everything depends on upbringing.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.