Leo Tolstoy Quote

The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, "Learn what is not given to man."
'What dwells in man" I already knew. Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.

Ch. XI - What Men Live By (1881)

The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, Learn what is not ...

The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, Learn what is not ...

The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, Learn what is not ...

The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, Learn what is not ...