Sublime

Finally Lady Berwick said, “You must have read Tolstoy.” Pandora blinked, clearly caught off guard by the unexpected statement. “I have,” she admitted, looking mystified. “How did you know?” “No young woman wants to marry after reading Tolstoy.

he glanced into her eyes and, noticing the blush of joyful and frightened excitement that spread over her face, became confused himself and silently smiled to her the sort of smile that says all too much.

The merit of a man is not in the knowledge he possesses, but in the effort he made to achieve it.

A man should use that spiritual heritage which he has received from the wise and holy people of the past, but he should test everything with his intellect, accepting certain things and rejecting others.

Created by one of the world’s greatest novelists and thinkers to represent the very best of the world’s spiritual heritage, it draws on the greatest works of religion, philosophy, and literature the world has yet seen. It belongs among the very best creations of human genius, a work which will serve its readers as a practical spiritual guide on how

Qu’arrivera-t-il si toute ma vie, ma vie consciente, n’a pas été ce qu’elle devait être? » Il se mit à songer que cette hypothèse, jugée d’abord par lui inadmissible, pouvait bien être la vérité et que sa vie n’était peut-être pas exempte de reproches. Il se rappela ses rares moments de révolte contre ce que la haute société approuvait. Ces moments

If God treats all people as equal, making no distinction between the good and the bad (and he knows people’s hearts), how can we, not knowing what is going on inside people’s hearts, decide about them from their appearance alone – and on this basis love some but dislike others? Tolstoy