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Table of Contents:
- The power of wisdom
- The Hebrews: Job and Ecclesiastes
- The Greeks: Plato's contest with Homer
- Cervantes and Shakespeare
- The greatest ideas are the greatest events
- Montaigne and Francis Bacon
- Samuel Johnson and Goethe
- Emerson and Nietzsche
- Freud and Proust
- Christian wisdom
- The gospel of Thomas
- Saint Augustine and reading
- Coda: nemesis and wisdom.