Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.

Without Greek studies there is no education.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.