"It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well..." concludes author Daniel Klein in his recently released book Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life.

Klein journeys to the Greek island of Hydra to discover the secrets of aging happily. I first went to Greece in my 20s and I’ve been going back to the same island for 40-something years now. 

"To finish writing this book, I needed encouragement from my Greek friends. I’ve seen some of them age and they just do it well, even in the midst of this financial crisis" said Klein in an interview with Huffington Post.


Drawing on the lives of his Greek friends, as well as philosophers ranging from Epicurus to Sartre, the author -in his early 70s- learns to appreciate old age as a distinct and extraordinarily valuable stage of life. Daniel Klein is also co-author of the bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes.

YouTube: Hydra Photographs by Billy Hudges-"Travels with Epicurus" [VIDEO]