"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. This is where the wisdom of lives that have
already been lived can be of immense aid -- a source of forward-facing
resolutions, borrowed from people who have long died, having lived, by any
reasonable standard, honorable and generous lives, lives of beauty and
substance, irradiated by ideas that have endured across the epochs to make other
lives more livable."
In this post Maria Popova shares enduring wisdom from James Baldwin, Ursula K.
Le Guin, Leo Tolstoy, Seneca, Toni Morrison, and more...
