Have You Read These? | The Brutal Truth About Ego (The Stoics Warn About)
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🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
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
That One Should Disdain Hardships by Musonius Rufus
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| 1:40.8 | Have you read these? |
| 1:42.5 | You can't be a student of the Stoics without reading the Stoics. |
| 1:46.0 | Beyond the quotes, beyond even the obvious, well-known Stoic texts, you have to really read the Stoics. |
| 1:52.0 | The Penguin translation of letters of a Stoic is great, but you're missing out if you stop there because Seneca actually wrote hundreds more letters that aren't included. |
| 2:04.5 | And what have Seneca's essays and his consolations? Have you read those? |
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