Tao Te Ching

“Tolstoy was the least superficial of men... At once insanely proud and filled with self-hatred, omniscient and doubting everything, cold and violently passionate, contemptuous and self-abasing, tormented and detached, surrounded by an adoring family, by devoted followers, by the admiration of the entire civilized world, and yet almost wholly isolated, he is the most tragic of the great writers”

— Isaiah Berlin 1909 – 1997 CE
"the world's greatest talker"
from The Proper Study of Mankind