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How to Live Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Sarah Bakewell

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or h...

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The Daily Stoic

It was described as one of the speaker's favorite philosophy books of all time, a great introduction to Montaigne, and highly recommended.

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It's one of my absolute favorite books and I think about it all the time.

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Episode: Sarah Bakewell on Humanism and The Power of Connec...

It was described as one of the speaker's favorite philosophy books of all time, a great introduction to Montaigne, and highly recommended.

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It's one of my absolute favorite books and I think about it all the time.

It's incredible books, a great introduction to Montaigne. I've recommended it to so many people over the years.

If you haven't read how to live, grab it. I'll link to it at the painted porch or grab it wherever you can. It's a wonderful book and we talk a lot about Montaigne. We talk about the Stoics. We talk about philosophy. Some other lovely topics.

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