A life lived in humility and with an irreproachable conscience brings peace, tranquility, and true happiness. But wealth, honor, glory and exalted position often serve as the cause of a multitude of sins, and such happiness is not one on which to rely.
Featured image: Monk of the Konevsky Monastery in a cell at a tea table, c. 1900s. Photographer Bulla Karl Karlovich. source