Sublime

To return good for evil is easier, more natural, and more rational than to return evil for evil. Tolstoy

We are aware of the spiritual, divine principle in our lives in two ways: firstly, through our reason, and, secondly, through love. Tolstoy

If you live with someone close to you it is a good thing to agree between yourselves to stop each other as soon as one of you begins to criticize the other. Tolstoy

Tolstoy: “Only those of us who know all our own weaknesses”, he says, “have the right to be indulgent towards the weaknesses of others” (30th July).

The union of a man and a woman for the continuation of the human race is such a huge and significant matter, both for the individual as well as for all mankind, that it must not be brought about any old how, at someone’s whim, just to make life pleasant for someone; it must conform to the considered decisions of all those wise and saintly people wh

“I know that it gives one great inner force, calmness, and happiness to communicate with such great thinkers as Socrates, Epictetus, Arnold, Parker…. They tell us about what is most important for humanity, about the meaning of life and about virtue…. I would like to create a book … in which I could tell a person about his life, and about the Good W