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I want to read books with useful life advice. so far I have in my list upininashads , Bhagavad Gita, and The dhammapada. What other books does /lit/ recommend I add to my list?

>> No.11039905

>>11039898
the Death of Ivan Ilyich

>> No.11039906

>>11039898
Ben Franklin incomplete auto biography.

>> No.11039914

>>11039898
Or ben Franklin road to wealth. Deceptively simple short work.

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>>11039898
core material is great, but you're going to gain the most out of these seminal texts by sorting through scholarly commentary and finding where you lay in reference to dilemmas/interpretive issues they may illuminate that otherwise you'd be unaware of.

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>>11039898
this man is all I need