Books
Epictetus’s Discourses
Extended conversations on choice, impressions, roles, freedom, training, and the use of appearances.
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Stoic Books
Guides to the public-domain primary texts searchable in the Ask Stoics library.
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Books
Epictetus’s Enchiridion
A compact manual of distinctions and reminders for daily Stoic practice.
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Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
Private reminders on judgment, duty, mortality, fellowship, and returning attention to the work at hand.
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Seneca’s Moral Letters
Letters on time, friendship, fear, grief, wealth, mortality, and the repeated work of character.
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Seneca’s On Anger
A sustained examination of anger’s beginnings, stories, delays, consequences, and remedies.
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Cicero’s On Duties
A practical inquiry into duty, honour, usefulness, justice, and conduct within society.
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Cicero’s On Ends
A philosophical treatment of the highest good, virtue, nature, and competing accounts of happiness.
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Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations
Dialogues on death, pain, grief, emotion, virtue, and the resources of philosophy.
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