Reading Collection
Stoicism Essentials
Timeless books on resilience, discipline, and inner peace, translated into practical guidance for modern life.
Inside this room
9
Books
59
Insights
Read in order, or open the book that matches the problem in front of you.
Books in Order
Start anywhere. Keep going.
The strongest reading paths usually start with the problem you can name clearly.
A Guide to the Good Life
William B. Irvine
The good life is not a destination. It's a daily practice.
Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
Donald Robertson
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Letters from a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Lives of the Stoics
Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
The Practicing Stoic
Ward Farnsworth
The Stoics offer not a set of beliefs but a set of practices — a way of seeing that you can try on, right now, and keep if it helps.
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