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Travels with Epicurus
by Daniel Klein
A seventy-three-year-old philosopher goes to a Greek island to learn how to be old from Epicurus and the locals. Short, charming, wise.
Read it if…
you want a gentle philosophy of aging.
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Skip it if…
you want rigor.
Try instead: How to Be an Epicurean →
Three things you will actually use
- Old age is its own season.
- Sit with friends.
- Stop striving.
Do this first
Read it on a slow afternoon.
Our verdict
Klein's island.
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