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The thoughts of wise people for every day are collected by L. N

Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich

Thoughts wise people on every day

“During the serious illness of Leo Tolstoy in January 1903, when his life hung in the balance and he could not devote himself to his usual work, he still found the strength to read the Gospel and out of habit, daily tearing off the calendar in his bedroom, read the collected there are sayings of various great men. But last year's calendar came to an end, and Lev Nikolayevich, in the absence of another at hand, wanted to compose for himself excerpts from various thinkers for each day. Every day, while in bed, as far as his strength allowed, he made these extractions, and the result of this work was the book offered to readers.

This includes selected thoughts of the following writers and sages: Epictetus, Diogenes, Marcus Aurelius, Socrates, Confucius, Buddha, Lao-Tse, Aristotle, Plato, St. Augustine and more modern: Pascal, Rousseau, Spinoza, Luther, Vauvenargue, Kant, Schiller, Bentham, Schopenhauer, Voltaire, Klinger, Thackeray, Dostoyevsky, Wilmain, Ruskin, etc..».

"Mediator", 1903

One winter, Francis was walking with his brother Leo from Perusa to Portionkul; it was so cold that they were trembling with cold, Francis called Brother Leo, who was walking in front, and said to him: “Oh, brother Leo, God grant that our brothers set an example of holy living throughout the earth; “Write down, however, that this is not the perfect joy.”

“And write down again, brother Leo, that if our brothers heal the sick, cast out demons, make the blind see, or resurrect those who died for four days, write down that there will be no perfect joy in this either.”

And, going even further, Francis said to Leo: “Write down again, brother Leo, that if our brothers knew all languages, all sciences and all scriptures, if they prophesied not only about the future, but would know all the secrets of conscience and soul, “Write down that there is no perfect joy in this either.”

Going even further, Francis again called the Lion and said: “And also write down, brother Leo, the sheep of God, that if we learned to speak in angelic languages, if we knew the course of the stars, and if all the treasures of the earth were opened to us, and we knew if all the secrets of the lives of birds, fish, all animals, people, trees, stones and waters - write down that this would not be a perfect joy.

And, having walked a little more, Francis again called Brother Leo and said to him: “Write down again that if we were such preachers that we would convert all the pagans to the faith of Christ, write down that there would not be perfect joy in this either.”

Then Brother Leo said to Francis: “In what, brother Francis, is joy perfect?”

And Francis answered: “Here is what. That if, when we arrive at Portionkül, dirty, wet, stiff with cold and hungry, and ask to be let in, and the gatekeeper tells us: “Why are you vagrants wandering around the world, seducing the people, stealing the alms of poor people, get out of here !" and will not open to us. And if then we don’t get offended and with humility and love think that the gatekeeper is right, that God Himself inspired him to do this with us, and we will stay wet, cold and hungry in the snow and in the water until morning without grumbling at the gatekeeper, then, Brother Leo only then will there be complete joy.”

People become embarrassed, worried and agitated only when they are busy with external affairs that do not depend on them. In these cases, they anxiously ask themselves: “What am I going to do? Will there be something? What will come of it? How could one or the other not happen? This is the case with those who constantly care about what does not belong to them.

On the contrary, a person who is occupied with what depends on himself, and who devotes his life to the work of self-perfection, will not disturb himself so much. If he had begun to worry about whether he would be able to hold on to the truth and avoid falsehood, then I would say: calm down - what worries you is in your own hands; look only at your thoughts and actions and try to correct yourself in every possible way. So don’t say: “Something will happen?” Everything that happens, you turn to yourself for teaching and benefit.

“What if I die fighting misfortune?”

- Well, what? In that case, you will die the death of an honest man, doing what you have to do. You need to die anyway, and death must catch you doing something. I would be pleased if death found me doing a deed worthy of a man, a deed good and useful to all people; or for her to catch me while I am trying to correct myself. Then I could raise my hands to God and say to Him, “Lord! You know Yourself how I used what You gave me to understand Your laws. Did I rebuke you? Did you resent what happened to me? Did he shirk his duty? I thank You for the fact that I was born, for all Your gifts. I have used them enough: take them back and dispose of them as You please, because they are Yours!”

Can there be a better death? In order to live to such a death, you do not need to lose much, although, it is true, you will gain much by doing so. If you want to keep what is not yours, then you will certainly lose what is yours.

Whoever wants to be successful in worldly affairs does not sleep all night long, constantly busying himself and fussing, imitating strong people and generally acting like a vile person. And in the end, what did he achieve with all this? He has achieved that he is surrounded by some honors, that he is feared, and that he, having become the head, disposes of some actions. Wouldn't you really want to do some work to free yourself from all such worries and sleep peacefully, fearing nothing and suffering nothing? Know that such peace of mind does not come for nothing.

(Epictetus)

Whether our life ends with carnal death is a matter of the greatest importance, and rare person doesn't think about it. Depending on whether we believe or not in eternal life and our actions will be reasonable or senseless. Every rational act is necessarily based on the certainty of the immortality of true life.

Therefore, our first concern should be to sort out and understand what exactly in life is immortal. Some people work hard to understand this. They recognize that their whole life must depend on it.

Other people, although they doubt immortality, are sincerely tormented by their doubt and consider it their greatest misfortune. They spare nothing to learn the truth, tirelessly seek it and consider it the most important thing in their life.

"Excerpts, sayings, etc. are like incendiary glasses: they collect the rays of the mind and knowledge ... and with strength and vivacity they concentrate these rays in the minds of readers" - these words of the great writer Jonathan Swift perfectly reflect the content of the collection, which includes aphorisms of Socrates, Plato, Confucius, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant, Dostoyevsky and many others. These thoughts were collected and systematized in the form of aphorisms for every day by none other than Leo Tolstoy himself. The thoughts of great people, collected by a great writer, are truly a storehouse of human wisdom. Take advantage of her treasures...

Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
Thoughts of wise people for every day

“During the serious illness of L. N. Tolstoy in January 1903, when his life hung in the balance and he could not devote himself to his usual work, he still found the strength to read the Gospel and out of habit, daily tearing off the calendar that was in his bedroom, read the collected there are sayings of various great people. But last year's calendar came to an end, and Lev Nikolayevich, in the absence of another at hand, wanted to compose for himself excerpts from various thinkers for every day. Every day, while in bed, as far as his strength allowed, he did these extraction, and the result of this work was the book offered to readers.

"Mediator", 1903

1st of January

One winter, Francis was walking with his brother Leo from Perusa to Portionkul; it was so cold that they were shivering from the cold, Francis called brother Leo, who was walking in front, and said to him: "Oh, brother Leo, God grant that our brothers set an example of holy life throughout the earth; - write down, however, that not in this is complete joy."

"And write down again, Brother Leo, that if our brothers heal the sick, cast out demons, make the blind see, or resurrect those who died for four days, write down that there will be no perfect joy in this either."

Then Brother Leo said to Francis: "In what, brother Francis, is perfect joy?"

And Francis answered: “And this is what. That if, when we arrive at Portionkül dirty, wet, stiff with cold and hungry, and ask to be let in, and the gatekeeper says to us: “Why are you vagrants roaming around the world, seduce the people, steal the alms of the poor people, get out of here!" - and he won’t open to us. let us stay hungry in the snow and in the water until the morning without grumbling at the gatekeeper, then, brother Leo, only then will there be complete joy.

January 2

People become embarrassed, worried and agitated only when they are busy with external affairs that do not depend on them. In these cases, they anxiously ask themselves: "What will I do? Will something happen? What will come of it? How could this or that not happen?" This is the case with those who constantly care about what does not belong to them.

On the contrary, a person who is occupied with what depends on himself, and who devotes his life to the work of self-perfection, will not disturb himself so much. If he had begun to worry about whether he would be able to hold on to the truth and avoid falsehood, then I would say: calm down - what worries you is in your own hands; look only at your thoughts and actions and try to correct yourself in every possible way. So don't say: "Something will happen?" Everything that happens, you turn to yourself for teaching and benefit.

“What if I die fighting misfortune?”

- Well, what? In that case, you will die the death of an honest man, doing what you have to do. You need to die anyway, and death must catch you doing something. I would be pleased if death found me doing a deed worthy of a man, a deed good and useful to all people; or for her to catch me while I am trying to correct myself. Then I could raise my hands to God and say to Him: “Lord! You know Yourself how much I used what You gave me to understand Your laws. Did I reproach You? Did I resent what happened to me? from doing my duty? I thank You that I was born, for all Your gifts. I have used them enough: take them back and dispose of them as You please, because they are Yours! "

(Epictetus)

January 3

Whether our life ends with carnal death is a question of the greatest importance, and a rare person does not think about it. It depends on whether we believe or not in eternal life, and our actions will be reasonable or meaningless. Every rational act is necessarily based on the certainty of the immortality of true life.

Therefore, our first concern should be to sort out and understand what exactly in life is immortal. Some people work hard to understand this. They recognize that their whole life must depend on it.

But there are also people who don't think about it at all. Their negligence, when it comes to themselves, surprises, revolts and frightens me.

(Vlas Pascal)

4 January

Judge not lest ye be judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you use, it will be measured to you again. And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not feel the beam in your eye? Or, as you say to your brother: let me take the speck out of your eye, but there is a log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see how to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

(Mm. VII, 1–5)

It is easy to notice the delusions of others, but it is difficult to notice one's own; they like to understand the mistakes of their loved ones, but hide their own, as a rogue tries to hide his fake dice.

A person is inclined to constantly blame others: he looks only at their mistakes, but his own passions grow more and more, removing it from improvement.

(Buddhist wisdom)

Do not judge your neighbor until you are in his place.

(Talmud)

5 January

One thing we know, or can know if we will, namely, that the heart and conscience of man are divine, that in the denial of evil and the recognition of good, man himself is divinity incarnate; that his joy in love, his suffering in anger, his indignation at the sight of injustice, his glory in self-sacrifice, are eternal, undeniable proofs of his unity with the supreme Sovereign; that in this, and not in bodily advantages and not in a greater variety of instincts, he himself is the master of the lower animated world. Insofar as he denies or violates the dictates of the heart and conscience, to the extent that he dishonors the name of the heavenly Father, and does not hallow His name on earth; in so far as he follows them, he sanctifies His name and receives from the fullness of His power.

(John Ruskin)

Wise words and thoughts of Tolstoy.

Very briefly about Tolstoy's life:

Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
(28.08/09.09.1828-07/20.11.1910)

Outstanding Russian writer, publicist, religious thinker.

Born in the Tula province, on the estate of Yasnaya Polyana, in the family of a count. He entered Kazan University, which he left in his second year and left for the Caucasus as a cadet of an artillery brigade. During the two years spent there, he wrote the autobiographical story "Childhood", which, together with the later stories "Boyhood" and "Youth", was part of the plan for the autobiographical novel "Four Epochs of Development" (the last part - "Youth" - was never written ). Soon after the start of the Crimean War, he was transferred to Sevastopol, where he wrote a series of essays called "Sevastopol Tales", which made a huge impression on Russian society reportage credibility and undisguised rejection of the war. In 1855 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he became close to the staff of the Sovremennik magazine. In 1860 he returned to Yasnaya Polyana, where he devoted himself to educational activities: he opened a school for peasant children, studied pedagogy in Russia and abroad, published the Yasnaya Polyana pedagogical magazine, wrote the ABC and the New ABC. At the same time, he wrote two of his most significant works: the epic novel War and Peace (1863-1869) and the novel Anna Karenina (1873-1877). In the 1880s, he wrote philosophical and religious works: "Confession", "Studies in dogmatic theology", "What is my faith?", where he expressed his rejection of the upper strata of society, statehood, state church, bureaucracy and serfdom, and together with this is non-resistance to evil by violence, the ideas of universal love and forgiveness. During this period, he created the stories "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "The Devil", the cycle of the so-called. "folk stories", the novel "Sunday". On November 7, 1910, he secretly left home, fell ill on the way and died at the Astapovo railway station. L.N. Tolstoy had an invaluable influence on the evolution and development of realistic traditions in world literature; Traces of this influence are found in the work of such writers as R. Rolland, E. Hemingway, B. Shaw, T. Mann, and others.

Almost an aphorism best form for the presentation of philosophical judgments.

Calamity is a touchstone for human life.

Immortality, of course, incomplete, is undoubtedly realized in the offspring.

The blessing of people in life. And life is at work.

Charity is only then charity when it is a sacrifice.

Most men demand virtues from their wives, which they themselves do not deserve.

Most of the actions of people are performed not by reasoning, not even by feeling, but by unconscious imitation, by suggestion.

The person who has nothing to say speaks the most.

For the most part, it happens that you argue passionately only because you can’t understand what exactly the opponent wants to prove.

A true marriage is only one that illuminates love.

Marriage is death. For the time being, the man walked freely, easily, then he took and tied his leg with the leg of a woman.

Be truthful even in relation to a child: keep your promise, otherwise you will teach him to lie.

Both be careful, attentive more than anything else to mutual relations, so that the habits of irritation and alienation do not creep in. It is not easy to become one soul and one body. We must try. But the reward for hard work is great. And I know one main remedy: not for a moment because of marital love, do not forget, do not lose love and respect as a person for a person. To have relations as a husband and wife - but at the heart of everything, to have relations as to an outsider, to a neighbor - these relations are the main thing. They have power.

There is work that is unnecessary, fussy, impatient, irritated, disturbing others and drawing attention to oneself. Such work is much worse than idleness. Real work is always quiet, uniform, imperceptible.

In an immoral society, all inventions that increase man's power over nature are not only not good, but an undeniable and obvious evil.

There is only one undoubted happiness in life - to live for another.

In art, everything is a little bit.

You can always recognize yourself in every person and his actions.

There is a side to the dream that is better than reality; actually there is a side better dreams. Complete happiness would be a combination of both.

In a moment of indecision, act quickly and try to take the first step, even if it is superfluous.

In youth, all forces are directed towards the future, and this future takes on such diverse, lively and charming forms under the influence of hope, based not on the experience of the past, but on the imaginary possibility of happiness, that only understood and shared dreams of future happiness already constitute the true happiness of this age. .

The need for happiness is embedded in man; so it's legal.

It has always been and will always be important only what is needed for the good of not one person, but all people.

It is not the quantity of knowledge that matters, but the quality of it. You can know a lot without knowing the most necessary.

Great objects of art are great only because they are accessible and understandable to everyone.

The greatest truths are the simplest.

Faith is an understanding of the meaning of life and the recognition of the duties arising from this understanding.

Faith is the agreement of will with conscience.

Material mercy is good only when it is a sacrifice. Only then does the recipient of a material gift also receive a spiritual gift.

Mutual love between people is the basic law of human life. It is true that a person cannot force himself to love, as he can force himself to work, but it does not follow from this that one can treat people without love, especially if one requires something from them. If you don't feel love for people, sit still.

Power over oneself is the highest power, enslavement to one's passions is the most terrible slavery.

The power of one person over another destroys, first of all, the one who rules.

In any case, a little, but good, is better than a lot, but bad. It's the same in books.

You can influence others only by confessing your convictions with your life.

You can hate life only because of apathy and laziness.

War is murder. And no matter how many people come together to commit murder, and no matter how they call themselves, murder is still the worst sin in the world.

The upbringing of children is only self-improvement, to which nothing helps as much as children.

Education is the impact on the hearts of those whom we educate.

When I die, they will not say about me: “famous writer”, but they will say: “What kind of Tolstoy?” - "Yes, that eccentric who lived for forty years with one wife."

Time is an endless movement, without a single moment of rest - and it cannot be conceived otherwise.

Time passes, but the spoken word remains.

All the disasters of people come not so much from the fact that they did not do what is necessary, but from the fact that they do what should not be done.

All education boils down to living well yourself, educating yourself: this is the only way people influence others, educate them.

All the people really busy important matter, are always simple, because they do not have time to invent unnecessary things.

All people of the world have the same rights to enjoy the natural benefits of the world and the same rights to respect.

All thoughts that have huge consequences are always simple.

All our troubles come from the fact that we sell our souls for a lentil soup of bodily joys.

All moral education children is reduced to good example. Live well, or at least try to live well, and as you progress in the good life, you will raise your children well.

All diversity, all charm, all beauty of life is made up of shadow and light.

All the strivings of men, all the urges towards life, are only strivings to increase freedom. Wealth - poverty, fame - uncertainty, power - subservience, strength - weakness, work - leisure, satiety - hunger - are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom.

All happy families similar to each other unhappy family unhappy in her own way.

It always seems that we are loved for being good. And we do not guess that they love us because those who love us are good.

All life is only an aspiration and a gradual approach to perfection, which is unattainable, because it is perfection.

Any slander only gains more meaning from objection to it.

Every thought is both false and just. It is false in one-sidedness because of the impossibility of a person to embrace the whole truth, and is just because of the expression of one side of human aspirations.

Every person knows that he needs to do not what separates him from people, but what unites him with them.

Every great deed is done precisely in conditions of invisibility, modesty, simplicity: neither plow, nor build, nor graze cattle, nor even think in the light, thunder and brilliance. Great, true deeds are always simple, modest.

Every false work praised by the critics is a door through which the hypocrites of art immediately rush in.

Any discussion of love destroys love.

Any pleasure will inevitably bring a soreness behind it, and everything that a person has to do is hard and difficult. And the sooner the reward for every difficult deed comes, the worse. We must do it in such a way as not to wait for the result of our work, the later it will have an effect, the better.

The highest happiness is given by three things: work, self-affirmation and love!

The heroic exit - in my opinion, is that the priest, having gathered his parishioners, went out to them on the pulpit and, instead of serving and bowing to the icons, would bow to the ground to the people, asking for forgiveness from them for misleading them.

The main cause of family misfortune is that people are brought up in the idea that marriage gives happiness. But marriage is not only not happiness, but always suffering, with which a person pays for a satisfied sexual desire.

The main thing is not to forget for a minute because of marital love, not to lose the love and respect of man for man.

The main obstacle to the knowledge of truth is not a lie, but a semblance of truth.

The main property in any art is a sense of proportion.

Speak only about what is clear to you, otherwise be silent.

They say you don't have to love yourself. But without self-love there would be no life. The only thing is to love in yourself: your soul or your body.

Pride is not at all the same as consciousness of human dignity. Pride increases with external success, the consciousness of one's human dignity, on the contrary, increases with external humiliation.

A proud person is definitely overgrown with an ice crust. Through this bark there is no way for any other feeling.

To sin is a human thing, to justify sins is a devilish thing.

Yes, here they are, Russian characters: it seems that a simple person, but a severe misfortune will come, and rise in him great power- human beauty.

The movement towards the good of mankind is made not by tormentors, but by martyrs.

Nine-tenths of the total number of crimes that stain humanity are committed under the influence of wine.

Do good in secret and regret when it is known, and you will learn the joy of doing good. The consciousness of a good life without the approval of people for it is best reward good life.

Do only what spiritually lifts you, and be sure that by doing so you can be most useful to society.

The point of criticism is to interpret the works of great writers, to single out the best from the large amount of rubbish written by all of us. As for critics, under their hands great writers often become small, profound writers petty, and wise writers stupid.

The business of science is to serve people.

Human activity, aimed at achieving only the good of the individual, is a complete negation of human life.

In order to learn to tell the truth to people, one must learn to tell it to oneself.

Good is the eternal, highest goal of our life. No matter how we understand good, our life is nothing but striving for good.

The good that you do from the heart, you always do to yourself.

A good deed is always done with effort, but when the effort is repeated several times, the same deed becomes a habit.

Kindness is for the soul what health is for the body: it is invisible when you own it, and it gives success in every undertaking.

Think well - and thoughts will ripen into good deeds.

The only consolation in the thought of the necessity of death lies in the consolation of the danger on the ship: in the fact that everyone is in the same position as me.

If man did not want, then there would be no man. The cause of all activity is desire.

If life does not seem to you a great joy, it is only because your mind is misdirected.

If you regret once that you didn't say it, you will regret a hundred times that you didn't say anything.

If your mind does not show you your place in the world and your destination, then know that it is not the bad structure of the world, not your mind, that is to blame for this, but the false direction that you gave it.

If strength bad people in that they are together, then good people, in order to become a force, must do the same.

If you ask why evil? I answer with a question: what is life for? Evil then to have life. Life manifests itself in liberation from evil.

If you do something, do it well. If you can't or don't want to do well, don't do it at all.

If the purpose of marriage is the family, then he who wants to have many wives and husbands may have much pleasure, but in no case will he have a family.

If a person is only a bodily being, then death is the end of something so insignificant that it is not worth even regretting it. But if man is a spiritual being and the soul is only temporarily in the body, then death is only a change.

There are two desires, the fulfillment of which can constitute the true happiness of a person - to be useful and to have a calm conscience.

There are people who, being discouraged or irritated, admire their condition, even are proud of it. It's the same as, having released the reins from a horse that carries you downhill, you still whip it with a whip.

There is one undoubted sign that divides the actions of people into good and evil: the act increases the love and unity of people - it is good; produces enmity and disunity - he is bad.

There are two kinds of people in conversion. Some with you, obviously, are the same as with everyone. Whether they are pleasant or not is a matter of taste, but they are not dangerous; others are afraid to offend you, upset you, disturb you, or even caress you. They talk without enthusiasm, are very attentive to you, often flatter. These people are mostly pleasant. Be afraid of them. With these people, the most unusual transformations into opposites occur - from the courteous it becomes rude, from the flattering - offensive, from the good - evil.

There are only two sources of human vices: idleness and superstition, and there are only two virtues: activity and intelligence.

There is only one way to put an end to evil - to do good to evil people.

We must always marry in the same way as we die, that is, only when it is impossible otherwise.

One must not marry for love, but without fail with a calculation, only understanding these words is just the opposite of how they are usually understood, that is, marrying not for love. sensual love and according to the calculation, where and how to live, but according to the calculation, how likely it is that the future wife will help, and not prevent me from living a human life.

Woman knows that our brother is all lying about high feelings- he only needs a body, and therefore he will forgive all the nasty things, but the ugly, tasteless, in bad taste the costume will not be forgiven.

A woman does not believe in reason, she does not understand that she must renounce herself, that this is life; when it is necessary to reject oneself, to throw oneself into the water for a drowning man, a man will do it rather.

A woman who tries to be like a man is as ugly as an effeminate man.

Women, like queens, hold nine-tenths of the human race in captivity of slavery and hard work. And all because they were humiliated, deprived of their equal rights with men.

Women, especially those who have male school, they know very well that talking about lofty subjects is talk, and that a man needs a body and everything that exposes it in the most deceptive, but attractive light; and this is what is being done.

Women have made themselves such an instrument of influencing sensuality that a man cannot calmly treat a woman. As soon as he approached her, he fell under her dope and went crazy.

Only those who do good live.

While living with people, do not forget what you learned in solitude. And in solitude, ponder what you have learned from your association with people.

Life, whatever it may be, is a good, higher than which there is nothing.

Human life is reasonable only when it is understood as service.

Human life, full of bodily suffering, which can be interrupted at any second, this life, in order not to be the most gross mockery, must have a meaning, such that the meaning of life would not be violated either by its sufferings, or by its duration or shortness.

The task of science should be to know what should be, not what is.

Anger, like love, is not Chemical substance, and organic, like yeast - sourdough. A tiny fraction leavens everything.

Knowledge without moral basis does not mean anything.

Knowledge is a tool, not a goal.

Knowledge humbles the great, surprises the ordinary, and puffs up the little man.

Knowledge is knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of one's thought, and not by memory.

Ideal is a guiding star. Without it, there is no firm direction, and no direction - no life.

The ideal woman, for me, will be the one who gives birth, feeds and educates the largest number children capable of working for people, according to the worldview she has learned. In order to assimilate a higher worldview, it seems to me, there is no need to attend courses, but you only need to read the Gospel and not close your eyes, ears and, most importantly, your heart.

Of the passions, the strongest, evil and stubborn is sexual, carnal love, and therefore if the passions and the last, most powerful of them, carnal love, are destroyed, then the prophecy will be fulfilled: people will unite together, the goal of mankind will be achieved, and there will be no need for him to live.

Avoid all expenses that you make out of vanity.

Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for a certain time, a goal for the year, for a month, for a week, for a day, and for an hour, and for a minute, sacrificing lower goals to higher ones.

Art is the highest manifestation of power in man.

Art is one of the means of uniting people.

Art is one of the means of distinguishing good from evil.

True, expressed in words, there is a powerful force in people's lives.

True love is not love for one person, but state of mind willingness to love everything.

True love in itself feels so much holiness, innocence, strength, enterprise and independence that for it there is neither crime, nor obstacles, nor the whole prosaic side of life.

The true strength of a person is not in impulses, but in indestructible calmness.

True compassion begins only when, by imagining yourself in the place of the sufferer, you actually experience suffering.

True debauchery is precisely in freeing yourself from moral relations with a woman with whom you enter into physical communication.

Everyone wants to change humanity, but no one thinks about how to change themselves.

No matter how unpleasant anger is for others, it is more difficult for the one who experiences it. What begins in anger ends in shame.

Oddly enough, the most firm, unshakable convictions are the most superficial. Deep beliefs are always mobile.

As soon as a matter is decided by violence, violence cannot stop... When solving a case by violence, the victory always remains not with the best people, but with the more selfish, cunning, shameless and cruel.

What a necessary spice to everything - kindness. The best qualities are worthless without kindness, and the worst vices are easily forgiven.

There is slander, a false bad opinion from which one cannot justify oneself. best school of good.

Books of sayings ... not only do not suppress independent activity mind, but, on the contrary, cause it.

The root of evil deeds is in bad thoughts.

Short thoughts are good because they make the serious reader think for himself.

Eloquence, like pearls, shines with content. True wisdom is laconic.

Beauty, joy only as joy, regardless of goodness, is disgusting.

The beauty of bodily forms always coincides with the concept of healthy strength, about the activity of vital energy.

The shortest expression of the meaning of life can be this: the world is moving and improving. the main task- contribute to this movement, submit to it and cooperate with it.

Criticism is only fruitful when, by judging, it indicates what that which is bad should be.

Those who have learned to think find it difficult to believe.

It is better to know less than you can than to know more than you need. Do not be afraid of ignorance, be afraid of the superfluous, burdensome knowledge acquired only for the sake of vanity.

A flatterer flatters only because he has a low opinion of himself and of others.

To love is good, to be loved is happiness.

To love is to live the life of the person you love.

Love is the true, highest good, which resolves all the contradictions of life and not only destroys the fear of death, but also attracts a person to the sacrifice of his existence for others.

Love is life itself: but not an unreasonable, suffering and perishing life, but a blissful and endless life.

Love is the power of life. Love is the rule for the fulfillment of all rules.

Love cannot be harmful, but if only it were love, and not the wolf of selfishness in sheepskin love.

Love destroys death and turns it into an empty ghost; it also turns life from nonsense into something meaningful and makes happiness out of misfortune.

People seem stupid to each other mainly because they want to seem smarter.

People who ... recognize war not only as inevitable, but also useful and therefore desirable - these people are terrible, terrible in their moral perversity.

People are divided into two kinds: some first think, and then speak and act, others speak and act first, and only then think.

People ... assure themselves and others that they are busy with the good of the people, and they are busy with it, like a chicken - building a temple, and are driven only by rude selfishness.

People learn how to speak, and the main science is how and when to be silent.

Least of all are people who want to appear simple.

Mercy consists not so much in material help as in the spiritual support of one's neighbor. Spiritual support is primarily in non-judgment of the neighbor and respect for his human dignity.

The world moves forward thanks to those who suffer.

Peace is freedom based on the recognition of the rights of every person.

The opinion we get when we first look at a person usually changes more or less quickly, and as long as this change has not taken place, you will always judge a person too well or too badly.

Wisdom in all worldly affairs, it seems to me, is not to know what to do, but to know what to do before and what to do after.

Wisdom is not about knowing too much. We cannot know everything. Wisdom is not in knowing as much as possible, but in knowing what knowledge is most needed, what is less and what is even less needed.

A man who takes a more active part in the daily battle of life does not give himself entirely to love and cannot forget about everything, be indifferent to everything except the all-consuming, single passion.

Music is the highest art in the world.

We love people for the good we have done to them, and we do not love them for the evil we have done to them.

We have become ignorant because we have forever closed from ourselves what is the only science - the study of those moves that all the great minds of mankind went to understand the truth. Since there is history, there are outstanding minds who made humanity what it is, these mental heights are distributed over all the millennia of history.

One and the same thing can be looked at tragically and made into torment, and looked at simply and even cheerfully.

One must be careful in inciting vanity in oneself with praise. Terribly increased vulnerability, soreness.

You have to believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.

We must not set ourselves the task of getting married, but set ourselves the everlasting task of living well, and then the time will come, and circumstances will make it impossible not to marry. So you really can't go wrong.

The purpose of reason is the discovery of truth, and therefore a great and destructive error is the use of reason to hide or distort the truth.

Violence cannot be done by one person over many, but only by an overwhelming majority, unanimous in their ignorance.

Real knowledge comes from the heart. We only know what we love.

Our enemies may be more useful to us than our friends, for friends often forgive us our weaknesses, while enemies usually mark them ... Do not neglect the judgments of enemies.

Our good qualities harm us more in life than bad ones.

Don't be afraid of ignorance, be afraid of false knowledge. From him all the evil of the world.

Do not believe that life is only a transition to another world and that we can only be good there. It is not true. We should be happy here in this world. And in order for us to feel good here in this world, we only need to live the way He Who sent us into it wants.

Do not believe the words of your own or those of others, believe only in the deeds of your own and those of others.

Never listen to those who speak badly of others and good things about you.

To not confess one's wrongdoings is to increase them.

It is not shameful and not harmful not to know. No one can know everything, and it is shameful and harmful to pretend that you know what you do not know.

There is dissatisfaction necessary condition intelligent life. Only this dissatisfaction induces to work on oneself.

You cannot swim and row without knowing where you are sailing, and you cannot live and make your life without knowing why.

The undoubted condition of happiness is labor: firstly, beloved and free labor; secondly, bodily labor, giving appetite and sound, soothing sleep.

An undoubted sign of true science is the consciousness of the insignificance of what you know, in comparison with what is revealed.

There is nothing worse than feigned kindness. Pretense of kindness repels more than outright malice.

There is no such insignificant object that, with concentrated attention paid to it, would not grow to infinity.

There is no assignment that cannot be delegated.

Can it be that people who now live on the necks of others will not understand themselves that this should not be, and will not get off voluntarily, but will wait until they are thrown off and crushed.

The vagueness of a word is an invariable sign of the vagueness of thought.

Never bother another with what you can do yourself.

Never despair of the struggle: do not regard the struggle as a precursor to something; there is life in it: a hard, painful, but true life.

No one has ever regretted living too simply.

Nothing beautiful can be made out of rivalry, nothing noble out of pride.

Nothing ennobles a person like work. Without labor, a person cannot maintain his human dignity.

Nothing brings people together like a good, harmless laugh.

One of the most common and leading to the greatest disasters of temptations is the temptation to say: "Everyone does it."

One of the first and universally recognized conditions of happiness is a life in which the connection between man and nature is not broken, that is, life under the open sky, in the light of the sun, with fresh air; communication with the earth, plants, animals.

One of the most amazing misconceptions is the misconception that a person's happiness consists in doing nothing.

Describing the life of people in such a way as to cut off the description at marriage is like describing a person's journey, cutting off the description at the place where the traveler got to the robbers.

Freeing oneself from labor is a crime.

The basis of love is the consciousness of each person of the unity of the spiritual principle that lives in all people.

Beware of the thought that you have virtues that others do not.

Judgment for good is the only verification of the sincerity of serving the good.

The first is bad - a bad mind.

Pessimism is stupidity in bad taste. I always want to say to a pessimist: if the world is not for you, do not flaunt your displeasure, leave it and do not interfere with others.

Bad books are not only useless, but harmful.

It is bad if a person does not have something for which he is ready to die.

The concept of beauty not only does not coincide with good, but rather is opposed to it, since good for the most part coincides with victory over addictions, while beauty is the basis of all our addictions.

Act as if you are alone in the world and people will never know about your act.

The need for education lies in every person; the people love and seek education, just as they love and seek air to breathe.

Poetry is a fire that kindles in the human soul. This fire burns, warms, illuminates. A real poet himself involuntarily and with suffering burns and burns others, and this is the whole point.

The right way is: learn what your predecessors did and move on.

Previously, they were afraid that objects that corrupt people would not fall into the number of art objects, and they banned all of it. Now they are only afraid that they might be deprived of some pleasure given by art, and patronize everyone. And I think that the latter error is much grosser than the first, and that its consequences are much more harmful.

Before engaging in politics, each person must deal with his own life.

A vocation can be recognized and proved only by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace or well-being in order to give himself up to his vocation.

Progress consists in the greater and greater predominance of reason over the animal law of struggle.

A work of art is only then a work of art when it introduces a new feeling into the daily routine of human life.

An enlightened one who knows the meaning of his life.

Only those who are weak are afraid of being branded as weak.

Simplicity is the main condition of moral beauty. In order for readers to sympathize with the hero, it is necessary that they recognize in him as many of their weaknesses as virtues, virtues - possible, weaknesses - necessary.

Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty.

Let the approval of people be the consequence of your action, and not the goal.

A slave who is content with his position is doubly a slave, because not only his body is in bondage, but also his soul.

Work is only joyful when it is undoubtedly needed.

Debauchery is not in anything physical - after all, no physical ugliness is debauchery, but true debauchery is precisely in freeing yourself from moral relations with a woman with whom you enter into physical communication.

The difference between material poisons and mental poisons is that most material poisons are nasty in taste, but mental poisons, in the form of bad books, unfortunately, are often attractive.

A falsehood exposed is just as important an acquisition for the good of mankind as a clearly expressed truth.

Reason is the pointer to the path of life.

Reasonable and moral always coincide.

The only beneficial revolution is that which destroys the old only by the fact that it has already established the new... Do not glue the wound together, do not cut it out, but displace it with living tissue.

Scold, condemn - rejoice; praise, approve - be afraid, upset.

The most harmful lies are cunning, complex lies, clothed in solemnity and splendor, as religious lies usually manifest themselves.

The most common and widespread reason for lying is the desire to deceive not people, but ourselves.

Most short expression the meaning of life is this: the world is moving, improving; the task of man is to participate in this movement, and to obey and contribute to it.

Most terrible consequence drunken drinks - that wine darkens the mind and conscience of people: people from drinking wine become rude, stupider and angrier.

Self-improvement is inherent in a person because he can never, if he is truthful, be satisfied with himself.

Most sure sign truth is simplicity and clarity. Lies are always complex, pretentious and verbose.

The most miserable slave is a man who gives his mind into slavery and recognizes as true what his mind does not recognize.

The best will be the one who lives by the feelings of others, but by his own thoughts.

Most best person the one who lives mainly on his own thoughts and other people's feelings, the worst kind of person - who lives on other people's thoughts and his own feelings. Of the various combinations of these four foundations, the motives of activity - all the differences in people. People who live only by their feelings are animals.

Only he is free, whom no one and nothing can prevent from doing what he wants. There is only one such thing: to love.

The property of love lies precisely in the fact that it gives good to those who experience it.

The property of a wise man consists in three things: the first is to do for himself what he advises others to do, the second is never to act against justice, and the third is to patiently endure the weaknesses of the people around him.

Strong people always simple.

Too much or too little to know each other equally prevents rapprochement.

The word is the deed.

Servants are the most faithful judges of masters, because they judge not by conversations and expressions of feelings, but by actions and lifestyle.

Perfection is only perfection when it seems achievable only in infinity and when, therefore, the possibility of approaching it is infinite.

Conscience is the memory of society, assimilated by the individual.

Conscience is that highest law of all living things, which everyone recognizes in himself not only by recognizing the rights of all living things, but also by love for him.

The coincidence of the line of life with the line of the ideal is happiness.

The ability to remember the past and imagine the future is given to us only in order to, guided by considerations about one or the other, more accurately decide the actions of the present.

there is justice last resort virtue to which everyone is bound. Above it - steps to perfection, below - vice.

Justice is moral moderation. To follow the rule in the physical world - nothing more - will be moderation, in the moral - justice.

The battle is won by the one who is determined to win it.

The degree of truthfulness of a person is an indicator of the degree of his moral perfection.

Shame in front of people - good feeling but best of all is shame in front of oneself.

The essence of any faith is that it gives life a meaning that is not destroyed by death.

Happy is he who is happy at home.

Happiness is pleasure without remorse.

Happiness is not in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you can.

Mysteriousness is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person, the simpler the language in which he expresses his thoughts.

Where labor turns into creativity, naturally, even physiologically, the fear of death disappears.

The crowd is a combination, even if good people, but adjoining only animal vile sides, and expressing only the weakness and cruelty of human nature.

Only people who are able to love intensely can experience intense grief; but the same need to love counteracts their grief and heals them. From this, the moral nature of man is even more tenacious than the physical nature. Grief never kills.

Only with the strong ideal aspirations people can fall morally low.

Labor is a necessary condition for human life, and labor brings good to a person.

Labor is not a virtue, but an inevitable condition of a virtuous life.

Labor, labor! How happy I feel when I work.

A cowardly friend is more terrible than an enemy, because you fear the enemy, but you hope for a friend.

Vanity is some kind of immature love of fame, some kind of pride transferred to the opinions of others - he loves himself not as he is, but as he is shown to others.

Vanity, concern for human glory - this is the last dress to be removed. It is difficult to remove it, but it weighs terribly; because most of all interferes with the freedom of the soul.

Vanity, vanity and vanity everywhere, even on the edge of the grave and between people who are ready to die because of high convictions, is vanity. It must be a characteristic feature and a special disease of our age.

At moral person family relationships complex, the immoral - everything is smooth.

At the very evil person his face blooms when he is told that he is loved. So, this is happiness.

The one who does nothing always has many helpers.

It is impossible to convince people who think differently by reasoning. We must first move their feelings, leaving them to argue that they are right.

Despondency and bad mood are not only painful for others, but also contagious.

Effort is a necessary condition for moral perfection.

A scientist is one who knows a lot from books; educated - one who has mastered all the most common knowledge and techniques of his time; enlightened - one who understands the meaning of his life.

If you want to live calmly and freely, wean yourself from what you can do without.

The purpose of dinner is nourishment, and the purpose of marriage is the family. If the purpose of dinner is to nourish the body, then he who suddenly eats two dinners may achieve great pleasure, but does not reach the goal, because both dinners will not be digested by the stomach. If the purpose of marriage is the family, then he who wants to have many wives and husbands may have much pleasure, but in no case will he have a family.

Church. The whole word is the name of a deceit by means of which some people want to rule over others.

Often people take pride in the purity of their conscience just because they have a short memory.

Often modesty is mistaken for weakness and indecisiveness, but when experience proves to people that they were mistaken, then modesty gives new charm, strength and respect to character.

You often hear young people say: I don't want to live with someone else's mind, I'll think it over myself. Why do you think about what you think about? Take what you have and move on. This is the strength of humanity.

The man of the future is already among us.

A proud man respects not himself, but the opinion that people make of him; a man with a consciousness of his own dignity respects only himself and despises the opinion of the people.

A person should always be happy. If the joy ends, look for what is wrong.

Man is a fraction. The numerator is, in comparison with others, the dignity of a person; the denominator is the person's assessment of himself. It is not in the power of a person to increase his numerator - his merits, but everyone can decrease his denominator - his opinion about himself, and by this decrease come closer to perfection.

The man has ruined his stomach and complains about dinner. The same is with people who are dissatisfied with life. We have no right to be dissatisfied with this life. If it seems to us that we are dissatisfied with her, then this only means that we have reason to be dissatisfied with ourselves.

A person can serve to improve social life only to the extent that he fulfills the requirements of his conscience in his life.

A person who has stopped drinking and smoking acquires that mental clarity and calmness of a look that illuminates for him all the phenomena of life from a new, true side.

A man who knows his life is like a slave who suddenly finds out that he is a king.

A person who is conscious of his destiny is thereby conscious of his dignity.

The more a person gives to people and the less he demands for himself, the better he is; the less he gives to others and the more he demands for himself, the worse he is.

The more a person is pleased with himself, the less there is in him to be satisfied with.

The higher a man rises in his own opinion, the more unreliable is his position.

The higher you try to show yourself to people, the lower you become in their opinion.

The less we are accustomed to, the less we are threatened by deprivation.

The easier it is for the teacher to teach, the harder it is for the students to learn.

The more difficult and difficult the circumstances, the more necessary firmness, activity and determination, and the more harmful apathy.

The smarter and kinder a person is, the more he notices goodness in people.

Ambition is a virtue in youth and with good means, for it becomes a vulgarity and a defect when a person no longer has the means to satisfy his passion.

Whatever happens, don't lose heart.

In order to live honestly, one must tear, get confused, fight, make mistakes, start and quit, and start again, and quit again, and always struggle and lose. And peace is a spiritual meanness.

To believe in good, one must begin to do it.

To do something great, you need to direct all the forces of the soul to one point.

To become happy, you need to constantly strive for this happiness and understand it. It does not depend on circumstances, but on oneself.

A broad nature is not the definition of a Russian person. He is inexhaustible and bottomless, a man of incredible possibilities.

Family selfishness is crueler than personal selfishness. A person who is ashamed to sacrifice the blessings of another for himself alone considers it his duty to use misfortune, the need of people for the good of the family.

Aesthetics is an expression of ethics: art expresses the feelings experienced by the artist. If the feelings are good, then the art will be good, high, and vice versa. If an artist is a moral person, then his art will also be moral.

Aesthetic and ethical are two arms of the same lever: as one side lengthens and becomes lighter, the other side shortens and becomes heavier. As soon as a person loses his moral sense, he becomes especially sensitive to the aesthetic.

This terrible mistake- to think that the beautiful can be meaningless.

Did you read: short wise sayings about life from the collection wise words and thoughts of great people.
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It's better to do nothing than to do nothing. Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
The best proof that the fear of death is not a fear of death, but of a false life, is that often people kill themselves out of fear of death.
To love is to live the life of the one you love. Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
Love creates life. Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
Love is life itself; but not an unreasonable, suffering and perishing life, but a blissful and endless life.

Love prevents death. Love is life. Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
Love destroys death and turns it into an empty ghost; it also turns life from nonsense into something meaningful and makes happiness out of misfortune.
People are always wrong and will be wrong, and in nothing more than what they consider just and unjust.
People know this property of wine to drown out the voice of conscience and consciously use it for this purpose.
People seem stupid to each other mainly because they want to seem smarter.
People are not punished for their sins, but are punished by the sins themselves. And this is the heaviest and most certain punishment.
People learn how to speak, and the main science is how and when to be silent.
People who cannot do anything should make people, and the rest should contribute to their enlightenment and happiness. "Anna Karenina"
A lot is needed for art, but the main thing is fire.
Wisdom is to know what the work of life is and how to fulfill it.
Music is shorthand for feelings. Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
We love people for the good we have done to them, and we do not love them for the evil we have done to them.
We do not love people not because they are evil, but we consider them evil because we do not love them.
We are surprised that there were and still are people who kill people to eat their meat. But the time will come when our grandchildren will be surprised that their grandfathers killed millions of animals every day in order to eat them.
One and the same thing can be looked at tragically and made into torment, and looked at simply and even cheerfully.
You must always be joyful. If the joy ends, look for what was wrong.
We must live in such a way as not to be afraid of death and not to desire it.
We must not set ourselves the task of getting married, but set ourselves the everlasting task - to live well, And then the time will come and circumstances will make it impossible not to get married. So you really can't go wrong.
You must definitely shake yourself up physically in order to be healthy morally.
We always think that we are loved because we are good. And we do not guess that they love us because those who love us are good.
Real life takes place where it is invisible.
Real love is not the love of one person, but spiritual state willingness to love everyone.
Science and art are just as necessary for people as food and drink and clothing, even more necessary; but they are not made so because we decide that what we call science and art is necessary, but only because people really need them.
Our Russian indifference is not to feel the obligations that our rights impose on us, and therefore to deny these obligations. "Anna Karenina"
Our good qualities harm us more in life than bad ones.
Don't be afraid of ignorance, be afraid of false knowledge. From him all the evil in the world.
Do not believe the words of your own or those of others, believe only in the deeds of your own and those of others.
It is not shameful and not harmful not to know. No one can know everything, but it is shameful and harmful to pretend that you know what you do not know.
Not the teacher who receives the upbringing and education of a teacher, but the one who has inner confidence that he exists, should be and cannot be otherwise. This certainty is rare and can only be proven by the sacrifices a person makes to his vocation.
Dissatisfaction with oneself is a necessary condition for rational life. Only this dissatisfaction induces to work on oneself.
You can't reign innocent. Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
An undoubted sign of true science is the consciousness of the insignificance of what you know, in comparison with what is revealed.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
There are no such positions and there are no such insignificant matters in which wisdom could not be manifested.

There are no conditions that a person could not get used to, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives the same way.
Is it really crowded for people to live on this beautiful light, under this immeasurable starry sky? Can a feeling of malice, vengeance, or the passion for the extermination of one's own kind be retained in the human soul in the midst of this charming nature?
No activity can be stable if it is not based on self-interest.
No violent reform will correct evil as long as people remain as they are, and therefore the correction of evil can be expected not from a change in the form of our life, but only from the spread of kindness and rationality.
Never bother another with what you can do yourself.
Never ask another to do what you can do yourself.
Nothing encourages idleness like empty talk. If people were silent and did not say those trifles with which they drive away the boredom of idleness from themselves, they could not endure it.
Nothing confuses the concepts of art so much as the recognition of authorities.
Effort is needed for all restraint, but of all such efforts, the most difficult is the effort to restrain the tongue. It is also the most necessary.
One of the most common and leading to the greatest disasters of temptations is the temptation to say: "Everyone does it."
One of the most amazing misconceptions is the misconception that a person's happiness lies in doing nothing.
Beware of the thought that you have virtues that others do not.
Judgment for good is the only verification of the sincerity of serving the good.
From a five-year-old child to me, only a step. From a newborn to me, a terrible distance.
The mistakes and oversights of a clearly conscious person can be more useful than the half-truths of people who prefer to remain in uncertainty ...
It is a mistake to think that knowledge is a virtue. What matters is not the quantity, but the quality of knowledge.
Man's first and undoubted duty is to participate in the struggle against nature for his own life and the lives of other people.
Stop talking as soon as you notice that you are irritated by yourself or the person you are talking to.
Pessimism is stupidity in bad taste. I always want to say to a pessimist: if the world is not for you, do not flaunt your displeasure, leave it and do not interfere with others.
Pessimism ... has always seemed to me not only sophism, but stupidity, and, in addition, stupidity in bad taste. I always want to say to a pessimist: "If the world is not for you, do not flaunt your displeasure, leave it and do not bother others."
It is bad if a person does not have something for which he is ready to die.
The concept of beauty not only does not coincide with good, but rather is opposed to it, since good for the most part coincides with victory over addictions, while beauty is the basis of all our addictions.
Truthfulness everywhere, and especially in education, is the main condition.
The truth is known not by the one who looks at his feet, but by the one who knows by the sun where to go.

The right way is: learn what your predecessors did and move on.
Indulging in regrets and fears, we lose the only eternity in which a person can be absolutely sure - the eternal Present.
Previously, they were afraid that objects that corrupt people would not fall into the number of art objects, and they banned all of it. Now they are only afraid that they might be deprived of some pleasure given by art, and patronize everyone. And I think that the latter error is much grosser than the first, and that its consequences are much more harmful.
With assiduous mental work without movement and bodily labor - a real grief.
A vocation can be recognized and proved only by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace and well-being in order to give himself up to his vocation.
Pretense of kindness repels more than outright malice.
Progress consists in the greater and greater predominance of reason over the animal law of struggle.
Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty.
A drunkard never advances either mentally or morally.
Drunkards would never become drunkards if they did not see respectable and respected by all people drinking wine and treating them.
Joy in life is the same as oil in a lamp. As soon as there is not enough oil, the wick burns out and, burning, ceases to shine and only smokes black, smelly smoke.
The difference between material poisons and mental poisons is that most material poisons are nasty in taste, but mental poisons in the form of bad books are unfortunately often attractive.
A falsehood exposed is just as important an acquisition for the good of mankind as a clearly expressed truth.
A spiritual wound, like a physical one, heals only from within by the protruding force of life.
A rare thief and murderer does his work sober.
The most common and widespread reason for lying is the desire to deceive not people, but ourselves.
The shortest expression of the meaning of life is this: the world is moving, improving; the task of man is to participate in this movement, and to obey and contribute to it.
The most powerful suggestion of goodness is an example of a good life.
The most terrible consequence of drunken drinks is that wine darkens the mind and conscience of people: people from drinking wine become ruder, stupider and angrier.
Self-improvement is inherent in a person because he can never, if he is truthful, be satisfied with himself.
The surest sign of truth is simplicity and clarity. Lies are always complex, pretentious and verbose.
The best person is the one who lives mainly on his own thoughts and other people's feelings, the worst kind of person is the one who lives on other people's thoughts and his own feelings. Of the various combinations of these four foundations, the motives of activity - all the differences of people, all the complex music of characters. People who live only by their feelings are animals.
The property of love lies precisely in the fact that it gives good to those who experience it.
The strength of an army depends on its spirit.
The forces of knowledge should be directed to what is most necessary for a person: to his moral self-improvement.
Strong people are always simple.
Powerful of the world seem great only to those people who kneel before them.
Too much or too little to know each other equally prevents rapprochement.
The word is a great thing. Great because with a word you can unite people, with a word you can separate them... Beware of such a word that separates people.
The word is the deed.
With a word you can unite people, with a word you can separate them ... Beware of such a word that separates people or serves to enmity and hatred ...
Perfection is only perfection when it seems achievable only in infinity and when, therefore, the possibility of approaching it is infinite.
Conscience is the memory of society assimilated by the individual.
Alcohol also preserves the soul and mind of a drunkard, as it preserves anatomical preparations.
Comparison is used or that, comparing worst thing with the best, to show how good the thing described is, or, by comparing an extraordinary thing with an ordinary one, in order to give a clear idea of it.
The battle is won by the one who is determined to win it.
Try to give the mind as much food as possible.
Strive to do your duty, and you will immediately know what you are worth.
Shame in front of people is a good feeling, but the best thing is shame in front of yourself.
The essence of any faith is that it gives life a meaning that is not destroyed by death.
Happy is he who is happy at home.
The happiness of all mankind is not worth the tears of one offended child.
Happiness is pleasure without remorse.
Happiness is not in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do.
The son always lives in his father's house, and the day laborer only for a while. And therefore, the son will not live like a day laborer: he will take care of his father's house, and not think, like a day laborer, only about getting his pay. If man believes that his life does not end with death, then he will live like a son in his father's house. If life is only what it is in this world, then he will live like a day laborer, trying to take advantage of everything that is possible in this life.
Mysteriousness is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person, the simpler the language in which he expresses his thoughts.
What begins in anger ends in shame.
Only people who are able to love intensely can experience intense grief; but the same need to love counteracts their grief and heals them. From this, the moral nature of man is even more tenacious than the physical nature. Grief never kills.
Only then will you be able to refrain from evil deeds when you learn to refrain from evil thoughts.
Only then is it easy to live with a person when you do not consider yourself higher, better than him, or him higher and better than yourself.
A sober person is ashamed of what a drunk person is not ashamed of. These words express the essential, basic reason why people resort to intoxicating substances.
Labor is a necessary condition for human life, and labor brings good to a person.
Labor is not a virtue, but a necessary condition for a virtuous life.
A cowardly friend is more terrible than an enemy, because you fear the enemy, but you hope for a friend.
Vanity... It must be there characteristic and a special disease of our age.
Every art has two deviations from the path: vulgarity and artificiality.
One girl was asked which main man, what is the most important time and what is the most necessary thing? And she answered, thinking that the most important person is the one with whom you are communicating at this moment, the most important time is the time in which you are now living, and the most necessary thing is to do good to the person with whom you are dealing at every given moment.
The most evil person's face lights up when he is told that he is loved. So this is happiness...
The one who does nothing always has many helpers.
Knowing your one wife whom you love, you will know all the women better than if you knew thousands of them.
Effort is a necessary condition for moral perfection.
Scientific explanations for the most part give the impression that what was clear and understandable becomes obscure and confused.
Good book- just a conversation with a smart person.
A good actor can, it seems to me, perfectly play the most stupid things and thereby increase their harmful influence.
Often in these short thoughts there are those ... which are clearer, more convincing and give more material thoughts than whole lengthy treatises.
Often people take pride in the purity of their conscience just because they have a short memory.
Often modesty is mistaken for weakness and indecisiveness, but when experience proves to people that they were mistaken, then modesty will give new charm, strength and respect for character.
You often hear young people say: I don't want to live with someone else's mind, I'll think it over myself. Why do you think about what you think. Take what you have and move on. This is the strength of humanity.
A person must be happy. If he is unhappy, then he is guilty. And he is obliged to work on himself until he eliminates this inconvenience or misunderstanding.
Man is like a fraction, the numerator is what he is, and the denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
A person who separates himself from other people deprives himself of happiness, because the more he separates himself, the worse his life is.
The more a person gives to people and the less he demands for himself, the better he is; the less he gives to others and the more he demands for himself, the worse he is.
The more a person shows love, the more people love him. And the more he is loved, the easier it is for him to love others.
The more guilty you are before your own, even if hidden, conscience, the more willingly and involuntarily you look for the guilt of others, and especially those before whom you are guilty.
The more difficult the situation, the less you need to act.
What to do? To discard all those improvements in life, all the power that humanity has acquired? Forget what it has learned? Impossible. No matter how maliciously these mental acquisitions are used, they are nevertheless acquisitions, and people cannot forget them.
In order to live honestly, one must tear, get confused, fight, make mistakes, start and quit, and start again, and quit again, and fight forever ... And peace is spiritual meanness.
To be true friends, must be confident friend in a friend.
To believe in good, one must begin to do it.
Family selfishness is crueler than personal selfishness. A person who is ashamed to sacrifice the blessings of another for himself alone considers it his duty to use misfortune, the need of people for the good of the family.
Aesthetic and ethical are two arms of the same lever: as far as one side is lengthened and lightened, the other is shortened and heavier. As soon as a person loses his moral sense, he becomes especially sensitive to the aesthetic.
It is a terrible mistake to think that beauty can be meaningless.
I know only two real misfortunes in life: remorse and illness.