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Live Like A Stoic: 52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life

by Massimo Pigliucci (Goodreads Author)

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The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

by Michel de Montaigne

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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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