Thoughts of wise people for every day

Thought of wise people for every day (1903) - the first of the four created L. N. Tolstoy in the 1900s of the arms of the aphorisms. With its name, this arch is obliged to thoughts Blaise Pascal, the reading of which made a great impression on the writer, as well as numerous collections of the teachings written by the fathers of the Church. The purpose of Tolstoy was to draw up a book, where the mouths of great would be said about the most pressing issues for a person. The result of the study and gathering fruitful thoughts of different writers and became a book where the statements of thinkers of the past and present are combined under one cover, among which Augustine Blessed, Aristotle, Confucius, Magomet, Socrates, Seneca, Spinosa, Goethe, Voltaire and many other others. They entered the collection and aphorisms of the most thick - about the meaning of life, about spiritual birth and growth, about the temptation and repentance, about false and true knowledge