Thoughts of wise people for every day. Tolstoy L.

“Thoughts of wise people for every day” (1903)-the first of the four of L. N. Tolstoy in the 1900s of the arches of aphorisms. By its name, this arch owes the famous “thoughts” Blaza Pascal, the reading of which made a huge impression on the writer, as well as numerous collections of teachings written by the Church Fathers. Tolstoy's goal was to make a book where the lips of the Great would speak of the most pressing issues for humans. The result of the study and collecting of “fruitful thoughts of different writers^ and the book was, where the statements of thinkers of the past and present are combined under the same cover, including Blessed Augustine, Aristotle, Confucius, Magomet, Socrates, Senec, Spinoza, Goethe, Voltaire and many others. The aphorisms of the most Tolstoy entered the collection - about the meaning of life, about spiritual birth and growth, about temptations and repentance, about false and true knowledge.