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The Good Life → The art of a simple life according to Epicurus
Human Nature → Psychology says the man who goes quiet and starts fixing things around the house after an argument isn’t avoiding the problem. It’s often the only way he was ever taught to say sorry
Lives & Ideas → In 1859, Abraham Lincoln told a crowd of Wisconsin farmers about an Eastern king who asked his wise men for one sentence that would always be true. They gave him: "And this, too, shall pass away."
In Their Words → Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca: “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it”

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