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Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past

By Maria Popova

If we abide by the common definition of philosophy as the love of wisdom, and if Montaigne was right — he was — that philosophy is the art of learning to die, then living wisely is the art of learning how you will wish to have lived. A kind of resolution in reverse.

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