A Calendar of Wisdom

"A Calendar of Wisdom" (Russian: "Путь Жизни", "Put' Zhizni"), is a collection of insights and wisdom compiled by Leo Tolstoy between 1903 and 1910 published in 1910. The book, which title is literally translated as "Life's Way", was described by Tolstoy as "a wise thought for every day of the year, from the great philosophers of all times and all people" which he himself would consult daily for the rest of his life. Wisdom from such luminaries as Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, Jesus, Confucius, Emerson, Kant, Ruskin, Seneca, Socrates, Thoreau and many more prompted Tolstoy to write in the introduction, "I hope that the readers of this book may experience the same benevolent and elevating feeling which I have experienced when I was working on its creation, and which I experience again and again when I reread it every day, working on the enlargement and improvement of the previous edition."

References

Tolstoy, Leo. "A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul" translated by Peter Sekirin. Prentice Hall & IBD. Oct 1997. ISBN-10: 0684837935.