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Q1: Self-Knowledge

Day 1Jan 1Socrates— The Apology, 38a Day 2Jan 2Plato— Phaedrus, 230a Day 3Jan 3Montaigne— Essays, Book I, Ch. 39 — Of Solitude Day 4Jan 4Marcus Aurelius— Meditations, Book IV, §3 Day 5Jan 5Epictetus— Discourses, Book I, Ch. 1 Day 6Jan 6Seneca— Letters to Lucilius, Letter 1 Day 7Jan 7Blaise Pascal— Pensées, §139 Day 8Jan 8Heraclitus— Fragment 101 Day 9Jan 9Lao Tzu— Tao Te Ching, Ch. 33 Day 10Jan 10Rainer Maria Rilke— Letters to a Young Poet, Letter 1 Day 11Jan 11Fyodor Dostoevsky— Notes from Underground, Part I Day 12Jan 12Simone Weil— Gravity and Grace, 1947 Day 13Jan 13Michel de Montaigne— Essays, Book III, Ch. 13 — Of Experience Day 14Jan 14Plato— Republic, Book VII — Allegory of the Cav…Day 15Jan 15Søren Kierkegaard— The Sickness Unto Death, 1849 Day 16Jan 16Friedrich Nietzsche— Beyond Good and Evil, §146 Day 17Jan 17Ralph Waldo Emerson— Self-Reliance, 1841 Day 18Jan 18Marcus Aurelius— Meditations, Book II, §1 Day 19Jan 19Seneca— Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2 Day 20Jan 20Confucius— Analects, Book 2, §4 Day 21Jan 21Hannah Arendt— The Human Condition, 1958 Day 22Jan 22Epictetus— Enchiridion, §5 Day 23Jan 23Baruch Spinoza— Ethics, Part III, Preface Day 24Jan 24William James— The Principles of Psychology, 1890 Day 25Jan 25Carl Jung— Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1961 Day 26Jan 26Seneca— On the Shortness of Life, §3 Day 27Jan 27Thich Nhat Hanh— The Miracle of Mindfulness, 1975 Day 28Jan 28Aristotle— Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, §1 Day 29Jan 29Seneca— Letters to Lucilius, Letter 6 Day 30Jan 30Plutarch— How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend, §…Day 31Jan 31Epictetus— Discourses, Book II, Ch. 18 Day 32Feb 1Rumi— Masnavi, Book I Day 33Feb 2Blaise Pascal— Pensées, §136 Day 34Feb 3Fyodor Dostoevsky— The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI Day 35Feb 4Marcus Aurelius— Meditations, Book VII, §59 Day 36Feb 5Zhuangzi— The Inner Chapters, Ch. 2 Day 37Feb 6Simone de Beauvoir— The Ethics of Ambiguity, 1947 Day 38Feb 7Augustine— Confessions, Book X, §8 Day 39Feb 8Henry David Thoreau— Walden, Ch. 2 — Where I Lived Day 40Feb 9Seneca— Letters to Lucilius, Letter 28 Day 41Feb 10Viktor Frankl— Man's Search for Meaning, 1946 Day 42Feb 11Lao Tzu— Tao Te Ching, Ch. 76 Day 43Feb 12Albert Camus— The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942 Day 44Feb 13Epictetus— Discourses, Book I, Ch. 15 Day 45Feb 14Plato— Symposium, 215e-216a — Alcibiades' Speec…Day 46Feb 15Meister Eckhart— Sermons, c. 1300 Day 47Feb 16Aristotle— Politics, Book I Day 48Feb 17Voltaire— Candide, Ch. 30, 1759 Day 49Feb 18Immanuel Kant— Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals,…Day 50Feb 19John Stuart Mill— On Liberty, Ch. 1, 1859 Day 51Feb 20Plato— Gorgias, 469b Day 52Feb 21Simone Weil— The Need for Roots, 1943 Day 53Feb 22Jean-Paul Sartre— Existentialism Is a Humanism, 1946 Day 54Feb 23Thomas Aquinas— Summa Theologica, I-II, Q. 94 Day 55Feb 24Albert Einstein— The World As I See It, 1934 Day 56Feb 25Mary Wollstonecraft— A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 17…Day 57Feb 26Walt Whitman— Song of Myself, §51, 1855 Day 58Feb 27Marcus Aurelius— Meditations, Book VI, §15 Day 59Feb 28Bertrand Russell— The Conquest of Happiness, 1930

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