Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life

Travels with Epicurus

A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life

2012 • 192 pages

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Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.


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