July 9–Essays by Sir Francis Bacon (1597)
Summary: A bunch of short essays on various topics.
Commentary: These were interesting. Kind of "coffee break philosophy." That might work better if they were a bit more modern (hard to do a quick bite of something when you need to work to parse it. Lots of untranslated Latin.) but interesting nonetheless.
He draws an interesting contrast between Christian priests, who emphasize how terrible death is (barring God saving you) vs older philosophers who often said (in some form or another) that death isn't as scary as we make it out to be.
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