The essential meaning of every religion is to answer the question “Why do I live, and what is my attitude to the limitless world which surrounds me?” There is not a single religion, from the most sophisticated to the most primitive, which does not have as its basis the definition of this attitude of a person to the world.

It’s important to strive to do good, and even more important to strive to abstain from evil.

A distinctive feature of a thinking person is submission to his fate, as opposed to the shameful struggle with it that is a characteristic feature of animals. —MARCUS AURELIUS

The higher the position you occupy among other people, the more humble you should be. Many people live in height and glory, but the mysteries of this world can be revealed only to those who are humble.

The Way of Life in 1910, the last year of his life. He wished to make the book easily comprehensible for even the simplest and least educated people—peasants and children. Most probably, Tolstoy compared A Calendar of Wisdom to War and Peace when he wrote that “To create a book for the masses, for millions of people … is incomparably more important

It is a great thing when two souls are united to support each other in their work, in their successes and misfortunes, until the last silent minutes of the last good-bye. —GEORGE ELIOT

A person becomes happy to the same extent to which he or she gives happiness to other people. —JEREMY BENTHAM

Your actions should be determined not by the desire of the people around you, but by the needs of all mankind.

People live by love: love of yourself is the beginning of death; love of other people and of God is the beginning of life.