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by Ryan Holiday
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by Ward Farnsworth
Farnsworth distills Stoic wisdom into twelve lessons organised thematically around judgement, externals, emotion, adversity, and virtue, drawing chiefly on Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. He weaves together excerpts from the ancient Stoics with later voices like Montaigne, Adam Smith, and Schopenhauer to present Stoicism as a practical, lived discipline rather than an academic system.
by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
Holiday and Hanselman narrate the lives of twenty-six Stoic philosophers from Zeno of Citium to Marcus Aurelius, showing Stoicism as a lived practice shaped by exile, politics, and empire. The book draws on the primary Stoic texts alongside Diogenes Laertius and modern scholarship to unite its figures around the cardinal virtues of courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom.
by Ryan Holiday
The second book in Holiday's Stoic Virtues series explores temperance as self-mastery, drawing on figures from Marcus Aurelius and Seneca to Queen Elizabeth II and Toni Morrison. Holiday argues that self-discipline is the virtue on which freedom and excellence rest, offering fifty-four short chapters on habits of body, mind, and spirit.