What are some good books (fiction or nonfiction) that read like a wise older man giving advice to a young man?
>>7573340
Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson
meditations
>>7573340
Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Evola
de officiis
>>7573353
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La voluntad by Azorin is literally that (The first half. Second half is better, though.)
Ecclesiastes
whole thing is a letter to Marcus Aurelius from Emperor Hadrian
Thomas F's Last Notes to the Public
Theaetetus
>>7573569
Common misconception. The dosage of opium he took was likely negligible and was a socially accepted form of medicine at a time where its escapist properties weren't really discovered.
>>7573352
You mean the Sscrewtape Letters? Or is there actually a book called Beezlebub's Tales to his Grandson
Relevant for all you would-be poets:
http://www.carrothers.com/rilke_main.htm