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

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

The Daily Stoic
Nov 19, 2024 14 min
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<p>You can’t be a student of the Stoics without reading the Stoics.</p><p>Books mentioned: </p><p><a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/philosophy13?_pos=1&amp;_sid=4b060fff7&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Letters From A Stoic </em>by Seneca</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/hardship-and-happiness-the-complete-works-of-lucius-annaeus-seneca?_pos=2&amp;_sid=bea088ede&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Hardship and Happiness (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)</em></a> by Seneca</p><p><a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/how-to-keep-your-cool-an-ancient-guide-to-anger-management?_pos=3&amp;_sid=47dbe6ecb&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>How To Keep Your Cool</em> by Seneca</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/philosophy19" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It</em></a> by Seneca</p><p><a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/how-to-die-an-ancient-guide-to-the-end-of-life?_pos=10&amp;_sid=47dbe6ecb&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>How To Die</em> by Seneca</a></p><p><a href="https://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Enchiridion</em> by Epictetus</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/philosophy4?_pos=1&amp;_sid=cd83b058b&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Discourses</em> by Epictetus</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/that-one-should-disdain-hardships-the-teachings-of-a-roman-stoic?_pos=1&amp;_sid=6bc3f913c&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>That One Should Disdain Hardships </em>by Musonius Rufus</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/war5?_pos=1&amp;_sid=a39393f39&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Call Sign Chaos </em>by Jim Mattis</a></p><br><p>📕 Pick up your own Premium Leather Edition of <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/meditations" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays Translation)</em></a> at the Daily Stoic Store: <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/meditations" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://store.dailystoic.com/</a></p><br><p>✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at <a href="https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><br><p>🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://store.dailystoic.com/</a></p><br><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;Instagram</a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Twitter</a>,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> YouTube</a>,<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> TikTok</a>, and<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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