One of the questions I get asked most often is “where should I start with Stoicism?” It is a fair question. There are thousands of years of material to choose from, and the sheer number of modern books on the subject can make it hard to know which are worth your time and which are just repackaging the same quotes with a new cover.

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Anxiety is one of the defining struggles of modern life. We worry about money, about relationships, about our health, about the future, about things we said years ago, about things that haven’t happened yet and probably never will. The mind races. Sleep suffers. We carry tension in our shoulders and a low hum of dread in the background of otherwise ordinary days.

Plato (c. 428 to 348 BC) is one of the most important figures in the entire history of Western thought. A student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotl...

Lao Tzu (also written as Laozi) is the legendary founder of Taoism and the attributed author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the most translated texts in the world. Very little is known about his life with certainty. Tradition places him in 6th century BC China, ...