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5 of the best philosophy-related books
Philosophers think about the most important questions in life–everything from how to face death gracefully…

Fear, mortality, and authenticity
“To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive…”

Seneca on anger
Anger is like stepping into quicksand. The angrier you get, the more damage you inflict upon yourself; just as the more…

Marcus Aurelius and the art of gratitude
Marcus Aurelius was the last emperor of the Pax Romana, a period of peace and stability for the Roman Empire. He was also a Stoic…

Aristotle & Seneca on friendship and isolation
Friendship was an important topic to Greek philosophers. Aristotle devoted 1/5th of his main work on ethics, Nicomachean Ethics…

Seneca on time
Time is invaluable: it's finite, we don't know how much of it we have and we can never get it back. Yet it's easy to forget its value.