A Calendar of Wisdom

by Leo Tolstoy


13th May

Every person should decide questions of life and death for himself.

A wise man sets requirements only for himself; an unwise man makes requirements for others.

— Chinese Wisdom

A soul does not learn; it simply remembers what it knew all the time.

— Daud El Gaffer

A wise man always finds some support for himself in everything, because his gift is in obtaining goodness from everything.

— John Ruskin

Nothing will bring you peace except yourself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the truth which was acquired by your own thinking, through the efforts of your intellect, becomes a member of your own body, and only this truth really belongs to us.

— Arthur Schopenhauer


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