“Well, he used to say that the great thing in married life was patience. Do you hear, Vanya? Not love, but patience. Love cannot last long. You have lived two years in love, and now evidently your married life has reached the period when, in order to preserve equilibrium, so to speak, you ought to exercise all your patience. . . .” Seagull
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship. The Karamazov Brothers
The life which is implicated with fortune (depends on fortune) is like a winter torrent: for it is turbulent, and full of mud, and difficult to cross, and tyrannical, and noisy, and of short duration. Fragment
Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. The Art Of War
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