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About the product About the series The «Great Personalities» series is a library of the main works of the most legendary and outstanding representatives of different eras. These are rulers, philosophers, artists — key figures of their time, whose thoughts and ideas are of interest to mankind to this day. In each book of the series, a kind of «sammari» is selected: for each personality, excerpts from key works, aphorisms, thoughts and statements are presented. These extremely practical publications will become indispensable both for students who are just getting acquainted with world culture and history, and for those who want to fill some gaps in knowledge. Convenient pocket format, paperback will allow you to get acquainted with the cultural heritage of the greats on the way to college or to work. About the book Lucius Annay Seneca is a famous ancient Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher, whose works influenced many famous philosophers and remain relevant to this day. Followers of Stoicism thought about the place of man in the world, about the essence of law and morality, and tried to make their behavior based on moral confidence. Seneca considered himself a «healer of souls.» The treatise «On Benefits», which this book introduces the reader, is dedicated to good — it teaches you to do and accept good deeds. «We will render a blessing in the way we would like to receive it ourselves: willingly, quickly and without any hesitation.» Abstract This is a book written by Mark Twain but has remained unpublished. From the endless variety of his texts, we selected those thoughts, paragraphs, periods, anecdotes, entertaining stories — there were also fables that show us Mark Twain not in a new, but in his true hypostasis: a moral philosopher, a sad joker with autumn in his heart. This collection is not so much witticisms as sentences — shrewd and ruthless, but «with the right to pardon.» Mark Twain endures them for the human race, to which he had a bitter pleasure to belong. And at the same time, the great wit Mark Twain was not a skeptic, although he saw right through people. The skeptic does not believe in the future — Mark Twain worked for him. In full accordance with the aphorism «the future has already come; it is just that it is still unevenly distributed», to which he himself would have signed, Twain used all the novelties of progress. He was one of the first to drop the pen and sit down at the typewriter. As a result, not a single publisher could shorten its text, referring to the fact that the author’s handwriting is illegible. In his spare time, he liked to write in the newspapers denials about his death, something like «Rumors about my death are greatly exaggerated.» In the end, he got all the editors, and they began to add to this message: «Sorry.» To which fans of the author all over the world would be glad to answer: «Fortunately!» Moreover, Twain himself wrote: «I am approaching the threshold of old age; in 1977 I will hit a hundred and forty-two. Enough fluttering around the world.» And even if Twain did not last a little until 1977, he is still alive in 2020! How are you, Mr. Twain? …
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