In the canon
A Calendar of Wisdom
- Form
- Form Aphorisms
- Year
- Year 1906
- Originally in
- Originally in Russian
- Pages
- Pages 380
Open it on any morning of the year and a page is waiting with that day's date on it, where Seneca may sit beside Lao-Tzu, Thoreau a few lines below the Buddha, and Tolstoy himself filling the gaps in his own plain, stubborn voice. He spent his last years gathering it, choosing each saying by hand, and once it existed he read from it every day for the rest of his life.
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.