Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy with great eagerness compiled the first collection "Thoughts of Wise People for Every Day," published in 1903 and reprinted by us today. He daily read from him thoughts on this number and advised his acquaintances and non-acquaintances to do the same. "I know for myself," we read in one of his letters, "how it gives strength, calm and happiness - to enter into communication with such souls as Socrates, Epictetus..." We add that in the book the reader will find selected thoughts of Diogenes, Marcus Aurelius, Socrates, Confucius, Buddha, Aristotle, Rousseau, Kant, Schiller, Voltaire, Dostoevsky, etc.