«Let others boast about the pages they have written; | I'm proud of what I've read, "said Borges. And is that good books transform us; A passage, however brief, can awaken the curiosity of the reader and encourage him to read a work that changes his life forever. That is the power of literature, which not only opens horizons for us, but also places in us, slowly but surely, the key to understanding life. Carried by this idea, Nuccio Ordine invites us in Classics for life to discover or remember some of the classics of all times, teachers of countless generations: Plato, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe, Rilke ... Well for the author education, education, constitute a form of resistance to the omnipresent laws of the market, to the commodification of our lives, to the fearsome unique thought.