Sublime

Tolstoy expressed his exasperation at people who didn’t read deeply and regularly. “I cannot understand,” he said, “how some people can live without communicating with the wisest people who ever lived on earth.”

How should one take revenge on one’s enemy? By trying to do as much good towards him as possible. Epictetus, Discourses

Le médecin sortit, alla au salon et déclara à Prascovie Fédorovna que son mari allait très mal, et que le seul moyen d’apaiser ses souffrances, qui devaient être atroces, c’était de lui administrer de l’opium. Le docteur avait raison de dire que les souffrances physiques d’Ivan Ilitch étaient intolérables. C’était vrai. Mais ses souffrances morales

The existing social structure is not compatible either with the demands of conscience, or with the requirements of reason. Tolstoy

"Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness of a parade.

At a certain level man becomes aware, deep within himself, of something supernatural. Tolstoy

slovenliness

On Thursday the wind dropped, and a thick grey mist gathered, as if concealing the mysteries of the changes taking place in nature.

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