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STOIC SIX PACK 6 - THE CYRENAICS: Aristippus Biographies by William Smith and Diogenes Laërtius, On the Contempt of Death …
This book is great, there are so many surprising and low tech ideas that lead to such water abundance. I can't wait to read the next 2 volumes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser …
Another excellent work by Seneca. Anger is a complex emotion and one of the hardest to control. Seneca really breaks it down and gives the reader a lot to think about and implement.
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort …
There's one point in the book where the author basically just says "people in their 20s are too entitled to appreciate Stoicism" which I find silly to say the least. The book is great and I'd fully recommend it to anybody who isn't going to read the ancient stoics. If you are already versed in Stoic techniques then you might not get a lot out of it though.
This selection of Seneca's letters shows him upholding the ethical ideals of Stoicism—the wisdom of …
Idealism is the killer of wisdom, it's a shame.
This book is great and I think if we applied stoic advice in our lives we'd be better off, but Seneca often goes on and on about idealist and frankly wrong conceptions that he has, and then elevates that BS to philosophy
'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies' Douglas Adams
Don't Panic celebrates the life of …
A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from …
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a 1971 novel …
Kif from Futurama teaches Duncan Idaho (Jason Mamoa) how to become a sex god. The entire Known Universe stands in awe.
I like the world building, the story, and a lot of the philosophical aspects to this book.
But the characters were incredibly weak. I struggled to care about any of them.
