Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius,
During my PUC I bought his book Meditations for just Rs2/- at old Moor Market.
But scholars like Marcus Aurelius, Lucretius , George Orwell, Voltaire, Lewis Carroll, William James, Richard Feyman, Bertrand Russell, J.K, Sri Aurobindo, Tagore, Victor Hugo, Mahakavi Bharathiyar, Vyasar ( of Mahabharatham) are relished more when we are able to connect to contexts at different times and different milieus because their wisdom manifested certain inevitable realities of human life's attitudes and perspectives irrespective of humanity's much acclaimed march of its civilization, sophistication and modernisation with all their concomitant developments and benefits.
That's why one can reread them many times and still get to learn something new every time one reads.
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