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Leo Tolstoy's fable / Why there is evil in the world

The hermit lived in the forest, and the animals were not afraid of him. He and the animals spoke to each other and understood each other.

One day the hermit lay down under a tree, and a raven, a dove, a deer and a snake gathered to spend the night in the same place. The animals began to discuss why evil exists in the world.

The raven said: “All evil in the world comes from hunger. When you have eaten to your heart’s content, you sit on your branch, croak - everything is fun, good, you are happy about everything; but just go hungry for a day or two, and everything will become so disgusting that you wouldn’t even look at the light of day.

And everything pulls you somewhere, you fly from place to place, and you have no peace. If you see the meat, it will make you even sicker, and you will throw yourself indiscriminately.

Other times they throw sticks and stones at you, and wolves and dogs grab you, but you still don’t lag behind. And how many of our brothers disappear because of hunger. All evil comes from hunger."

The dove said: “But for me, evil does not come from hunger, but all evil comes from love. If we lived alone, we would have little grief.

One head is not poor, but only one head is poor.

Otherwise we always live in couples.

And you will love your friend so much that you have no peace - you keep thinking about her: is she well-fed, is she warm?

And when your friend flies away somewhere away from you, you will be completely lost - you keep thinking: lest a hawk carry it away or people catch it; and you yourself will fly to look for her, and you will end up in trouble - either under a hawk or in a snare.

And if a friend disappears, then nothing is nice anymore. You don’t eat, you don’t drink, you just look and cry. How many of us are missing from this! All evil comes not from hunger, but from love.”

The snake said:

“No, evil does not come from hunger or love, but evil comes from anger.

If only we lived peacefully, if we didn’t get angry, everything would be fine for us.

Otherwise, when something happens that is not according to you, you get angry - then nothing is nice.

You just think about how to take your evil out on someone.

Here you don’t remember yourself, you just hiss and crawl, looking for someone to bite.

You no longer feel sorry for anyone - you are angry until you destroy yourself. All the evil in the world comes from anger.”

The deer said: “No, not from anger, and not from love, and not from hunger, all the evil in the world is, but evil is from fear.

If only we weren't afraid, everything would be fine.

Our legs are agile and we have a lot of strength.

You can fight off a small beast with your horns, but you can escape a big one.

Yes, you can’t help but be afraid.

Just crunch a branch in the forest, rustle the leaves, and you’ll shake all over with fear, your heart will start beating, as if it wants to jump out, and you’ll fly as fast as you can.

Another time a hare will run, a bird will flutter, or a dry branch will break off, and you think - an animal, and you will run at the animal.

Otherwise, if you run from a dog, you will run into a person.

Often you get scared and run, you don’t know where, and in a big way you fall down a steep slope and get killed.

And you sleep with one eye open, you listen and you’re afraid. There is no peace. All evil comes from fear."

Then the hermit said:

“It is not from hunger, not from love, not from anger, not from fear that all our torment comes, but from our body all the evil in the world.” From it comes hunger, love, anger, and fear.