Leo Tolstoy
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“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.”
“Learn, both from your teachers and from the books which you read, only those things which you really need and which you really want to know.”
“A scholar knows many books; a well-educated person has knowledge and skills; an enlightened person understands the meaning and purpose of his life.”
Tolstoy's circle of reading
Tolstoy spent seventeen years collecting a wise thought for every day; in his late seventies, seriously ill and confronting mortality, he wrote the book and felt elevated by communion with the wisest people.