This 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 wrote nothing about computers, Voltaire wrote nothing about cinema, and Mark Twain wrote nothing about Freudianism. There are thought-provoking sayings here; 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 Wisdom.” The book was also published under the title “Big Book of Aphorisms.”