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Have You Read These? | The Brutal Truth About Ego (The Stoics Warn About)

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You can’t be a student of the Stoics without reading the Stoics.

Books mentioned:

Letters From A Stoic by Seneca

Hardship and Happiness (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca) by Seneca

How To Keep Your Cool by Seneca

On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It by Seneca

How To Die by Seneca

The Enchiridion by Epictetus

Discourses by Epictetus

That One Should Disdain Hardships by Musonius Rufus

Call Sign Chaos by Jim Mattis

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