Books Details
Author : Ryan Holiday Pages : 352 pages Publisher : Portfolio Language : ISBN-10
: 052554187X ISBN-13 : 9780525541875
Books Descriptions
Instant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and
Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller! A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a
stellar work by Publishers WeeklyFrom the bestselling authors of The Daily
Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what the ancients
can teach us about happiness, success, resilience and virtue.Nearly 2,300 years
after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa
Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek
greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It's no wonder;
the philosophy and its embrace of self-mastery, virtue, and indifference to that
which we cannot control is as urgent today as it was in the chaos of the Roman
Empire.In Lives of the Stoics, Holiday and Hanselman present the fascinating
lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of
Courage. Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Organized in
