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challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Great book. If anyone’s interested in Stoicism and wants to head straight to the ancient texts, this would be great given it’s short length. Covers a lot of the basic ideas, and if you’re hooked, then you can go on to read more Stoic texts like Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Meditations’ or Seneca’s ‘Letters’. On its own though, great. He has a good wit about him, as well as his wits about him (ba dum tssss). Short, straight to the point, lots of nuggets of wisdom to take away from it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
Covers tenets of Stoic philosophy, surrounding for example: understanding there are things you can and can’t control, that it is our goal to be good, that we must do all things in moderation, staying true to ourselves, and so on and so forth
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