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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
The problem is what man wants to achieve, what is his ideal. If he wants wealth, honors, glory, pleasures, he will have a certain life. If he wants love from all people, he will have a completely different life. It's all about the ideal. If he wants riches, honors, glory, pleasures, man will think how to take more from others to have for himself, how to spend and give less to others. If he wants honors, he will be approving, flattering, submissive to those in power, he will be haughty, he will limit himself to people, he will despise those he does not need to be successful. If he wants glory, he will sacrifice everything, including the lives of others and his own, for the sake of success. If he wants pleasure, he will invent means of increasing pleasures, transforming them and bringing forth even more powerful ones. But if man wants love towards all people, he will remember when he is alone with himself how in his past life, yesterday, today, he did not respect the love of people, how he did, said, thought something bad, unloving, he will think what prevented him from doing it, what faults, temptations, habits, and he will think how to get rid of them.