One day a wanderer came to the hermit and, having performed the greeting ritual, asked to guide him on the path of truth.
“I know what occupies your thoughts and steals the joy of being,” said the hermit. - All your life you have been looking for perfection in people and, without finding it, you cannot find peace. But I know the cure for your illness. In communicating with everyone, you should look only for what you like, complementing the qualities of one with the features of another and the properties of a third. Then in a dozen men you can find a good friend, and in a dozen women you can find great love.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru