This luxurious collection brings together a precious part of the intellectual heritage of mankind - aphorisms, wise thoughts, examples of fine literature, sacred commandments, pearls of philosophical treatises, poetic forms close to the heart.
The book provides a rare opportunity to listen to the fascinating timeless dispute between enlightened mystics and notorious atheists, theosophists and Marxists, convinced monogamists with misogynists, firm ascetics with admirers of Bacchus and carnal pleasures, great optimists with black pessimists.