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LIVES OF THE STOICS - RYAN HOLIDAY STEPHEN HANS...

From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the
Stoics  and what the ancients can teach us about happiness  success  resilience and virtue.
Nearly 2 300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa
Poikile of Athens  Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness  from
athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It's no wonder  the philosophy and its embrace
of self-mastery  virtue  and indifference to that which we cannot control is as urgent today as
it was in the chaos of the Roman Empire. In Lives of the Stoics  Holiday and Hanselman present
the fascinating lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of
Courage. Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Organized in digestible  mini-biographies of all the
well-known--and not so well-known--Stoics  this book vividly brings home what Stoicism was like
for the people who loved it and lived it  dusting off powerful lessons to be learned from their
struggles and successes. More than a mere history book  every example in these pages  from
Epictetus to Marcus Aurelius--slaves to emperors--is designed to help the reader apply
philosophy in their own lives. Holiday and Hanselman unveil the core values and ideas that
unite figures from Seneca to Cato to Cicero across the centuries. Among them are the idea that
self-rule is the greatest empire  that character is fate  how Stoics benefit from preparing not
only for success  but failure  and learn to love  not merely accept  the hand they are dealt in
life. A treasure of valuable insights and stories  this book can be visited again and again by
any reader in search of inspiration from the past.

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