Aphorisms and quotations

The famous French moralist La Rochefoucauld considered the ability to say a lot in a few words to be a hallmark of a great mind. It is this quality that is i...

Elon Musk is admired as a successful businessman, a millionaire and a person known and respected throughout the world. This book is a collection of his state...

This edition includes various aphorisms - serious, ironic, and philosophical. Some will make you smile, others will make you think. In any case, the thoughts...

War and peace, enemies and friends, loyalty and betrayal, cruelty and mercy, glory and infamy - these themes are as eternal as the world, for they have worri...

“The universe is illuminated by the sun, man is wisdom,” says a Chinese proverb. This collection contains Chinese, Taoist and Zen parables that preserve the ...

Readers are offered statements by Napoleon, recorded by Count Las Cases, who voluntarily followed the emperor into exile on the island of St. Helena. These s...

“To a wise man a word is enough,” says an English proverb. Moreover, if this word came from the pen of an extraordinary thinker or absorbed centuries-old fol...

History, unfortunately, always remains an instrument of today's politics, and whoever controls the past controls both the present and the future. But time is...

American writer Christian Bovey once said: “After God, we are primarily indebted to woman: first she gives us life, and then she gives this life meaning.” Th...

“Since ancient times, people have had wise and beautiful sayings; We should learn from them,” these words of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus perfectly ...