Works

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• Discourses I by Epictetus

  Epictetus's students recorded his classroom talks, and Book I lays out the single distinction his whole philosophy rests on: what is up to us and what is not.

• Discourses II by Epictetus

  This book of Epictetus's lectures shows how confidence and caution, courage and care, can coexist once you sort the world correctly into what is up to you and what is not.

• Discourses III by Epictetus

  This book of the Discourses trains the reader to locate good and evil in the will alone, and to test every impression, from a beautiful face to a dead son, against what is and is not up to us.

• Discourses IV by Epictetus

  This book asks what freedom actually is, and argues that almost no one who thinks he has it, has it.

• Handbook by Epictetus

  A short, blunt manual for telling what is up to you from what is not, and building your life on the first.

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

  A Roman emperor's private notebook of Stoic exercises shows what it looks like to practice philosophy under real pressure, not just write about it.

• Moral Letters Vol I by Seneca

  A collection of letters from Seneca to his younger friend Lucilius that turns everyday worries, time, money, death, crowds, and friendship, into daily exercises in Stoic thinking.

• Moral Letters Vol II by Seneca

  This volume of Seneca's letters to Lucilius argues that all virtue is equal, that goods won through suffering are as complete as goods won through ease, and that a well-lived life matters more than a long one.

• Moral Letters Vol III by Seneca

  This third volume of Seneca's letters to Lucilius argues that a life's worth is measured by its use, not its length, and defends the practical work of moral advice against the charge that philosophy needs only its first principles.