The book you are holding in your hands is the most modern encyclopedia of aphorisms in the Russian language. This does not mean that only modern aphorists are presented in it. This only means that the book contains aphorisms that might interest a modern reader. Many of them belong to ancient writers, classics of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. And if modern authors still predominate, it is because Seneca did not write anything about computers, Voltaire about cinema, and Mark Twain about Freudianism. The book contains thought-provoking sayings; There are phrases that make you smile. But the best ones are those in which a smile and a thought cannot be separated. They form the core of the “Big Book of Aphorisms.” Compiled by Konstantin Dushenko, based on Russian and foreign sources.