A philosopher's dream come true-all of the essential wisdom texts in one volume; including:
- Cebes: the disciple of Socrates
- Lucretius: the Latin poet who versified the doctrines of Epicureanism
- Solomon: the wisest man ever to live
- Aristotle: "The Father of those who know"
- Confucius: The "Superior Man"
- Cato: "second only to Solomon in wisdom"
- Aesop: the sage fabulist
- Ptah-Hotep: the oldest author in the world
- Washington: the Father of his nation
- Gracián: the Jesuit instructor in The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- Buddha: the Enlightened One
- Epictetus: Caesar's preceptor
- Descartes: the masterful doubter
- Epicurus: the "bright star of the Greek race"
- Plato: the Divine
- Plutarch: the hierophant and prince of biographers
- Franklin: whose Poor Richard shows The Way to Wealth
- Cowley: the English essayist who leads us back to the fields in his piece On Agriculture
- Clason: The Richest Man in Babylon
- Laozi: Master of the Tao
- Bhagavad Gita: the "Song of God"
- & Sophocles': King Oedipus
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