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Lucretius: On the Nature of Things was actually my favorite book in this... book. Super enjoyable. Made me want to read other books describing early forays into materialism and science. This was back when physics was still basically a philosophy, so its crazy reading him trying to logic out atomism and fluid dynamics from first principles (And in a poetic manner!). Of course this means there was comparatively little of the traditional "How do I achieve the good life?" sort of philosophy here, bu...
I took this out strictly for Epictetus (no offense to the worthy Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius), so I am taking the liberty of declaring the volume "read" although I ignored two-thirds of it. That's allowed, isn't it?