Living a Good Life

This collection of eminently practical advice from the likes of Socrates Plato Diogenes Pythagoras and Aristotle covers subjects as diverse as money child-raising politics philosophy law and relationshipsall aspects of life and how to live it. . Thomas Cleary has translated these sayings and aphorisms from the Arabic sources that preserved Greek thought throughout the Middle Ages. Many of the texts no longer exist in the original Greek. Included in the book is an appendix that presents resonant sayings and fragments from Buddhist Taoist and Muslim sources demonstrating the universal quality of the teachings of the Greek sages and hinting at the interaction between Western and Eastern cultures.