“The Box of Aphorisms” are sayings of different authors, selected by the compiler from collections, books, magazines and Internet resources, in particular the collections were used: “Fount of Wisdom: Aphorisms” (compiled by Tkacheva O.V., ABC, 2000), “God is not an angel: aphorisms” (compiled by K. Dushenko, EKSMO, 2000), “Thoughts, aphorisms and jokes of outstanding women” (compiled by K. Dushenko and G. Manchha, EKSMO, 2000), K. Dushenko “Aphoristikon or the most explanatory dictionary" (EXMO, 1999), "Everything in Science: Aphorisms" (EXMO, 2000), "2000 best aphorisms" (EXMO, 2000), Guberman I.M. “Favorites” (Rusich, 2002), Polyakov Yu.M. “Little goat in milk” (Rosman, 2003) Kruglov A. “Dictionary from A to Z”, etc., as well as sites: aphorism/, The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.