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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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Feb 16, 2017 07:40PM

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
― George Eliot

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

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

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

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

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